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

Triendl R (2002) Attractive forces in Asia. Nature 418:4–5

A journal article with 2 authors

Bitz CM, Fu Q (2008) Arctic warming aloft is data set dependent. Nature 455:E3-4; discussion E4-5

A journal article with 3 authors

Weil D, Graham M, Fung A (2013) Science and regulation. Targeting transparency. Science 340:1410–1411

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schwab JM, Chiang N, Arita M, Serhan CN (2007) Resolvin E1 and protectin D1 activate inflammation-resolution programmes. Nature 447:869–874

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stavroudis ON (2006) The Mathematics of Geometrical and Physical Optics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Yager RR, Kacprzyk J, Beliakov G (eds) (2011) Recent Developments in the Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators: Theory and Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Lemle E, Bomkamp K, Williams MK, Cutbirth E (2015) Virtual Reality and the Future of Entertainment. In: Bomkamp K, Williams MK, Cutbirth E (eds) Two Bit Circus and the Future of Entertainment. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 25–37

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

Carpineti A (2016) What’s The Chance Of Life On Pluto? 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 (1979) Cost/Benefit Analysis--A Legislative Branch Viewpoint. 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

Rodriguez Gamez LI (2012) New perspectives on the spatial analysis of urban employment distribution and commuting patterns: The cases of Hermosillo and Ciudad Obregon, Mexico. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Kelly C (2011) One High School Band and the Changes It Wrought. New York Times A31B

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triendl 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Triendl 2002; Bitz and Fu 2008).

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

Two authors: (Bitz and Fu 2008)
Three or more authors: (Schwab et al. 2007)

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

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