How to format your references using the Mineralium Deposita citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mineralium Deposita. 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	Download the output style file
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

Hooper LV (2014) Immunology. Innate lymphoid cells sweeten the pot. Science 345:1248–1249

A journal article with 2 authors

Cho NW, Greenberg RA (2015) DNA repair: Familiar ends with alternative endings. Nature 518:174–176

A journal article with 3 authors

Bloom DE, Canning D, Fink G (2008) Urbanization and the wealth of nations. Science 319:772–775

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yang B, Zhou YT, Chen D, Ma XL (2013) Local decomposition induced by dislocation motions inside precipitates in an Al-alloy. Sci Rep 3:1039

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kothari V (2008) Credit Derivatives and Structured Credit Trading. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809

An edited book

Faletti C (ed) (2016) Traumatologia scheletrica: Imaging integrato clinico-radiologico. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Stichel S, Logashenko D, Grillo A, et al (2012) Numerical Methods for Flow in Fractured Porous Media. In: Delgado JMPQ (ed) Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 83–113

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 Mineralium Deposita.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Skydiver Almost Hit by Meteorite. 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 (1972) Employment Security Operations--The Impact of a Computerized Job Bank in Baltimore, Maryland. 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

Demenkoff JH (2014) Evolution and emergence of the masculinities: Epiphanies and epiphenomena of the male athlete and dancer. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Hubbard B (2016) Saudi Prince Is Executed for Murder. New York Times A9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hooper 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hooper 2014; Cho and Greenberg 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cho and Greenberg 2015)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mineralium Deposita
Abbreviation	Miner. Deposita
ISSN (print)	0026-4598
ISSN (online)	1432-1866
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics