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

Painter PR (2000) Rivers, blood and transportation networks. Nature 408:159; discussion 160

A journal article with 2 authors

Moran NA, Jarvik T (2010) Lateral transfer of genes from fungi underlies carotenoid production in aphids. Science 328:624–627

A journal article with 3 authors

Barsh GS, Farooqi IS, O’Rahilly S (2000) Genetics of body-weight regulation. Nature 404:644–651

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jin R, Cao YC, Hao E, et al (2003) Controlling anisotropic nanoparticle growth through plasmon excitation. Nature 425:487–490

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anthony B, Boudnik K, Adams C, et al (2016) Professional Hadoop®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Indianapolis, IN, USA

An edited book

Brady BHG (2006) Rock Mechanics for underground mining: Third edition. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Haney K (2006) Improvisation in the Dance of Life: the Microcosm and Macrocosm. In: Tymieniecka A-T (ed) Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 97–111

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 E (2014) New Material Converts Sunlight to Steam. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-material-converts-sunlight-steam/. 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 (2003) Commercial Aviation: Factors Affecting Efforts to Improve Air Service at Small Community Airports. 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

Moulder JC (2010) Comparative analgesic effects of prepulse inhibition and reduced voltage waveforms in defibrillation. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Barron J (2017) A Floor of a World Trade Center Tower Is Splashed With Graffiti, by Invitation. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Painter 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Painter 2000; Moran and Jarvik 2010).

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

Two authors: (Moran and Jarvik 2010)
Three or more authors: (Jin et al. 2003)

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