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

Wang K (2014) Measurement biases explain discrepancies between the observed and simulated decadal variability of surface incident solar radiation. Sci Rep 4:6144

A journal article with 2 authors

Byrne S, Ingersoll AP (2003) A sublimation model for martian south polar ice features. Science 299:1051–1053

A journal article with 3 authors

Palla G, Barabási A-L, Vicsek T (2007) Quantifying social group evolution. Nature 446:664–667

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Selker EU, Tountas NA, Cross SH, et al (2003) The methylated component of the Neurospora crassa genome. Nature 422:893–897

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ancheyta J (2016) Deactivation of Heavy Oil Hydroprocessing Catalysts. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Malek S (ed) (2013) Advances in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Liu W, Cai W, Cui B, Wang M (2015) Synthetic Evaluation Method of Electronic Visual Display Terminal Visual Performance Based on the Letter Search Task. In: Shumaker R, Lackey S (eds) Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: 7th International Conference, VAMR 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 30–38

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

Carpineti C (2017) Incredible Meteor Footage Captured By Dashcam. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/incredible-meteor-footage-captured-by-dashcam/. 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 (2007) Weather Forecasting: National Weather Service’s Operations Prototype Needs More Rigorous Planning. 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

Soheili A (2008) A transannular Cope approach toward the core structure of isocyclocitrinol. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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) Evacuation Ends, Leaving Aleppo in Government Hands. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wang 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Byrne and Ingersoll 2003; Wang 2014).

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

Two authors: (Byrne and Ingersoll 2003)
Three or more authors: (Selker et al. 2003)

About the journal

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

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