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

Gould P (2002) Portraits of science. Two good women, or too good to be true? Science 296:1805–1806

A journal article with 2 authors

Volkow ND, Baler RD (2012) Neuroscience. To stop or not to stop? Science 335:546–548

A journal article with 3 authors

Lai CSW, Franke TF, Gan W-B (2012) Opposite effects of fear conditioning and extinction on dendritic spine remodelling. Nature 483:87–91

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kasper LH, Boussouar F, Ney PA, et al (2002) A transcription-factor-binding surface of coactivator p300 is required for haematopoiesis. Nature 419:738–743

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pan GW (2003) Wavelets in Electromagnetics and Device Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Mustofa K, Neuhold EJ, Tjoa AM, et al (eds) (2013) Information and Communication Technology: International Conference, ICT-EurAsia 2013, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, March 25-29, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Poteat VP, Scheer JR, Chong ESK (2016) Sexual Orientation-Based Disparities in School and Juvenile Justice Discipline Practices: Attending to Contributing Factors and Evidence of Bias. In: Skiba RJ, Mediratta K, Rausch MK (eds) Inequality in School Discipline: Research and Practice to Reduce Disparities. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp 61–78

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

Hamilton K (2017) Cheerios’ Attempt To Save Bees Backfired Massively. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cheerios-attempt-to-save-bees-backfired-massively/. 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 (1981) President’s Third Special Message for FY 1981. 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

Packer CD (2013) School Referenda and Ohio Department of Education Typologies: An Investigation of the Outcomes of First Attempt School Operating Levies from 2002–2010. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Master. New York Times C12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gould 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Gould 2002; Volkow and Baler 2012).

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

Two authors: (Volkow and Baler 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kasper et al. 2002)

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