How to format your references using the Mine Water and the Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mine Water and the Environment. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Chicurel M (2002) Genome analysis at your fingertips. Nature 419:751, 753

A journal article with 2 authors

Hu DL, Bush JWM (2005) Meniscus-climbing insects. Nature 437:733–736

A journal article with 3 authors

Religa TL, Sprangers R, Kay LE (2010) Dynamic regulation of archaeal proteasome gate opening as studied by TROSY NMR. Science 328:98–102

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen H, Wang Z, Zhang R, et al (2014) A meta-substrate to enhance the bandwidth of metamaterials. Sci Rep 4:5264

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Homès B (2012) Fundamentals of Software Testing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Verbert K, Sharples M, Klobučar T (eds) (2016) Adaptive and Adaptable Learning: 11th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2016, Lyon, France, September 13-16, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Dhaliwal S, Deakins D (2014) Entrepreneurial Discovery and Asian Entrepreneurship in the UK. In: Lundström A, Zhou C, von Friedrichs Y, Sundin E (eds) Social Entrepreneurship: Leveraging Economic, Political, and Cultural Dimensions. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 93–111

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Mine Water and the Environment.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Meet Viserion And Drogon: The New Ant Species Named After The Game Of Thrones Dragons. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (2013) IT Dashboard: Agencies Are Managing Investment Risk, but Related Ratings Need to Be More Accurate and Available. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Grefe SE (2013) Plasmonic and topological insulator nanostructures and metamaterials nanoscale near-field investigations: Experiment and theory. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Miller S (2017) Tennis Stars on Steroids? It’s Make Believe, Right? New York Times B7

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Chicurel 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Chicurel 2002; Hu and Bush 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hu and Bush 2005)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mine Water and the Environment
Abbreviation	Mine Water Environ.
ISSN (print)	1025-9112
ISSN (online)	1616-1068
Scope	Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Water Science and Technology