How to format your references using the Mineralogical Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mineralogical Magazine. 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

Fox, R.O. (2009) Obituary: Frederic Richards (1925-2009). Nature, 457, 976.

A journal article with 2 authors

Christensen, U.R. and Tilgner, A. (2004) Power requirement of the geodynamo from ohmic losses in numerical and laboratory dynamos. Nature, 429, 169–171.

A journal article with 3 authors

Czaplicka, A., Holyst, J.A. and Sloot, P.M.A. (2013) Noise enhances information transfer in hierarchical networks. Scientific reports, 3, 1223.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Fillmore, C.M., Xu, C., Desai, P.T., Berry, J.M., Rowbotham, S.P., Lin, Y.-J., Zhang, H., Marquez, V.E., Hammerman, P.S., Wong, K.-K. and Kim, C.F. (2018) Author Correction: EZH2 inhibition sensitizes BRG1 and EGFR mutant lung tumours to TopoII inhibitors. Nature, 563, E27.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yavaş, M. (2011) Applied English Phonology. P. in.: Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Martin, D. and Serjantov, A. (eds.). (2005) Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 4th International Workshop, PET 2004, Toronto, Canada, May 26-28, 2004. Revised Selected Papers. P. in.: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, VIII, 345 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, K. (2013) Interpolation Approximations for the Performance of Two Single Servers in Series. Pp. 37–44 in: Proceedings of the Institute of Industrial Engineers Asian Conference 2013 (Y.-K. Lin, Y.-C. Tsao and S.-W. Lin, editors). Springer, Singapore.

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 Mineralogical Magazine.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016) Lab-Grown Corneas Could Help Fight Blindness. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lab-grown-corneas-help-fight-blindness/> (30 October 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) Maritime Administration’s Federal Ship Financing Program. 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

Reynolds, P.E. (2012) Learning the Ropes: A Grounded Theory Study of Children Crossing Cultures. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Wagner, J. (2017) Mets Collapse Again Under the Weight of Their Pitching Dysfunction. New York Times, SP3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fox, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Christensen and Tilgner, 2004; Fox, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Christensen and Tilgner, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Fillmore et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mineralogical Magazine
Abbreviation	Mineral. Mag.
ISSN (print)	0026-461X
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology