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

Yildiz A (2006) GE Prize winner. How molecular motors move. Science 311:792–793

A journal article with 2 authors

Nimmo F, Pappalardo RT (2006) Diapir-induced reorientation of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Nature 441:614–616

A journal article with 3 authors

Kozloski J, Hamzei-Sichani F, Yuste R (2001) Stereotyped position of local synaptic targets in neocortex. Science 293:868–872

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Marino AM, Pooser RC, Boyer V, Lett PD (2009) Tunable delay of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement. Nature 457:859–862

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shreves R, Dunwoodie B (2011) Drupal® 7 Bible. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA

An edited book

Lehmann-Grube F, Sablatnig J (eds) (2010) Facets of Virtual Environments: First International Conference, FaVE 2009, Berlin, Germany, July 27-29, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Filos E (2010) ICT for Sustainable Manufacturing: A European Perspective. In: Ortiz Á, Franco RD, Gasquet PG (eds) Balanced Automation Systems for Future Manufacturing Networks: 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Conference, BASYS 2010, Valencia, Spain, July 21-23, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 28–35

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 (2015) NASA Is Developing Flying Drones To Explore Distant Worlds. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-developing-drones-explore-distant-worlds/. 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 (1980) Basic Agreements With Educational Institutions or Nonprofit Organizations for Award of Research and Development Contracts. 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

Deise EC (2008) Frame problems, Fodor’s challenge, and practical reason. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Sisario B (2017) Judge Voids Deal Over Prince Catalog. New York Times B4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yildiz 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Yildiz 2006; Nimmo and Pappalardo 2006).

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

Two authors: (Nimmo and Pappalardo 2006)
Three or more authors: (Marino et al. 2009)

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