How to format your references using the Mineral Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mineral Economics. 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

Eleftheriades GV (2014) Electronics: Protecting the weak from the strong. Nature 505:490–491

A journal article with 2 authors

Cande SC, Stegman DR (2011) Indian and African plate motions driven by the push force of the Réunion plume head. Nature 475:47–52

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim C, Facchetti A, Marks TJ (2007) Polymer gate dielectric surface viscoelasticity modulates pentacene transistor performance. Science 318:76–80

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Adrian L, Szewzyk U, Wecke J, Görisch H (2000) Bacterial dehalorespiration with chlorinated benzenes. Nature 408:580–583

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Horton I (2010) Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++® 2010. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Stack MS, Fishman DA (eds) (2010) Ovarian Cancer: Second Edition, 2nd edn. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Dachman-Soled D, Dov Gordon S, Liu F-H, et al (2016) Leakage-Resilient Public-Key Encryption from Obfuscation. In: Cheng C-M, Chung K-M, Persiano G, Yang B-Y (eds) Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2016: 19th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, Taipei, Taiwan, March 6-9, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 101–128

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 Mineral Economics.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Top 10 New Species Discovered 2017. 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 (1995) Montana’s Medical Assistance Facilities. 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

Gwaduri E (2009) A personal narrative: Struggles and experiences of acculturation as a Pakistani Shia Muslim while battling immigration. 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

Vecsey G (2011) Parallel Coaching Paths, Decades Apart. New York Times SP2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eleftheriades 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Cande and Stegman 2011; Eleftheriades 2014).

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

Two authors: (Cande and Stegman 2011)
Three or more authors: (Adrian et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mineral Economics
Abbreviation	Miner. Econ.
ISSN (print)	2191-2203
ISSN (online)	2191-2211
Scope	Economic Geology Geography, Planning and Development