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

Connerney J (2013) Solar system: Saturn’s ring rain. Nature 496:178–179

A journal article with 2 authors

Haldar A, Shenoy VB (2014) Cooling a band insulator with a metal: fermionic superfluid in a dimerized holographic lattice. Sci Rep 4:6655

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee J, Gross SP, Lee J (2013) Improved network community structure improves function prediction. Sci Rep 3:2197

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fishlock TW, Oral A, Egdell RG, Pethica JB (2000) Manipulation of atoms across a surface at room temperature. Nature 404:743–745

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Utsuro M, Ignatovich VK (2010) Handbook of Neutron Optics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Dillon TS, Chang E, Meersman R, Sycara K (eds) (2009) Advances in Web Semantics I: Ontologies, Web Services and Applied Semantic Web. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang Z, Xue Y, Zhu X, et al (2016) Combustion Behavior of Low-Rank Coal Upgraded by Degradative Solvent Extraction. In: Yue G, Li S (eds) Clean Coal Technology and Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Coal Combustion. Springer, Singapore, pp 31–37

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 Mineralium Deposita.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) How To Build The World’s Fastest Car. 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 (2006) Suggested Areas for Oversight for the 110th Congress. 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

Heckman KA (2010) Pedogenesis & carbon dynamics across a lithosequence under ponderosa pine. 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

Brantley B (2017) Revealing What You May Not Care to Tell. New York Times C5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Connerney 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Connerney 2013; Haldar and Shenoy 2014).

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

Two authors: (Haldar and Shenoy 2014)
Three or more authors: (Fishlock et al. 2000)

About the journal

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