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

Blatt R (2000) Push-button entanglement. Nature 404:231–232

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray RD, Atkinson QD (2003) Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin. Nature 426:435–439

A journal article with 3 authors

Fry SN, Sayaman R, Dickinson MH (2003) The aerodynamics of free-flight maneuvers in Drosophila. Science 300:495–498

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ishii K, Ogiyama Y, Chikashige Y, et al (2008) Heterochromatin integrity affects chromosome reorganization after centromere dysfunction. Science 321:1088–1091

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li FM, Nathan A, Wu Y, Ong BS (2011) Organic Thin Film Transistor Integration. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Boccia F, Leonardi R (eds) (2016) The Challenge of the Digital Economy: Markets, Taxation and Appropriate Economic Models. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Chou H-M (2016) Logical Data Resource Storage. In: Fisher RB, Chen-Burger Y-H, Giordano D, et al. (eds) Fish4Knowledge: Collecting and Analyzing Massive Coral Reef Fish Video Data. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 51–57

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

Hale T (2016) Facebook Data Explores Truth Of Stereotypes About Cat-Lovers And Dog-Lovers. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/facebook-data-explores-truth-of-stereotypes-about-catlovers-and-doglovers/. 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 (1987) Aviation Weather: Status of FAA’s New Hazardous Weather Detection and Dissemination Systems. 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

Runyan TE (2017) A Machine Learning Approach to Quantifying Likely Locations of Gas and Gas Hydrate Accumulation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Qiu L (2017) Election Influence, Separate and Unequal. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blatt 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Blatt 2000; Gray and Atkinson 2003).

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

Two authors: (Gray and Atkinson 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ishii et al. 2008)

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