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

Plutzky, J. (2003) Medicine. PPARs as therapeutic targets: reverse cardiology? Science (New York, N.Y.), 302, 406–407.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bonnell, I.A. and Rice, W.K.M. (2008) Star formation around supermassive black holes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321, 1060–1062.

A journal article with 3 authors

Madhu, R., Veeramani, V. and Chen, S.-M. (2014) Heteroatom-enriched and renewable banana-stem-derived porous carbon for the electrochemical determination of nitrite in various water samples. Scientific reports, 4, 4679.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Wilson, A.M., Hubel, T.Y., Wilshin, S.D., Lowe, J.C., Lorenc, M., Dewhirst, O.P., Bartlam-Brooks, H.L.A., Diack, R., Bennitt, E., Golabek, K.A., Woledge, R.C., McNutt, J.W., Curtin, N.A. and West, T.G. (2018) Biomechanics of predator-prey arms race in lion, zebra, cheetah and impala. Nature, 554, 183–188.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sage, A.P. and Rouse, W.B. (2011) Economic Systems Analysis and Assessment. P. in.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Burke, E.K. and Kendall, G. (eds.). (2005) Search Methodologies: Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques. P. in.: Springer US, Boston, MA, VI, 620 p. 99 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Landriani, L. and Pozzoli, M. (2014) The Accounting Measurement of Cultural Asset Heritage. Pp. 99–112 in: Management and Valuation of Heritage Assets: A Comparative Analysis Between Italy and USA (M. Pozzoli, editor). SpringerBriefs in Business, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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

Luntz, S. (2014) Scientists Create A Supernova Explosion In The Lab. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-create-supernova-explosion-lab/> (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. (2003) Pipeline Safety: Systematic Process Needed to Evaluate Outcomes of Research and Development 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

Tolley, C.B. (2009) The role of trust and care in the implementation of a social constructivist curriculum in physical education. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Pilon, M. (2012) Richards-Ross Breaks American Drought In the Women’s 400. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Plutzky, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Plutzky, 2003; Bonnell and Rice, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Bonnell and Rice, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Wilson et al., 2018)

About the journal

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