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

White NJ (2008) Qinghaosu (artemisinin): the price of success. Science 320:330–334

A journal article with 2 authors

Skovran E, Martinez-Gomez NC (2015) Microbiology. Just add lanthanides. Science 348:862–863

A journal article with 3 authors

Lower SK, Hochella MF Jr, Beveridge TJ (2001) Bacterial recognition of mineral surfaces: nanoscale interactions between Shewanella and alpha-FeOOH. Science 292:1360–1363

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lim SY, Ahn S-H, Park H, et al (2014) Transcriptional regulation of adrenomedullin by oncostatin M in human astroglioma cells: implications for tumor invasion and migration. Sci Rep 4:6444

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne C (2014) Specification Development. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ghosh S (ed) (2010) Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MODELS 2009, Denver, CO, USA, October 4-9, 2009, Reports and Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Nakayama T (2015) Biology, Diversity and Ecology of Free-Living Heterotrophic Flagellates. In: Ohtsuka S, Suzaki T, Horiguchi T, et al. (eds) Marine Protists: Diversity and Dynamics. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 63–87

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

Luntz S (2017) How Wall Street Destroyed America’s Solar Industry. 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 (1992) Mission Support Project: User Perceptions on Computer Use and Network Operations. 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

Aguirre I (2009) Policy analysis of the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999. 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

Branch J, Kovaleski SF, Tavernise S (2017) Gunman Methodically Chased Gambling’s Highs. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (White 2008).
This sentence cites two references (White 2008; Skovran and Martinez-Gomez 2015).

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

Two authors: (Skovran and Martinez-Gomez 2015)
Three or more authors: (Lim 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