How to format your references using the Mineralogy and Petrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mineralogy and Petrology. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Goodman S (2001) Pressure grows over US blood ban. Nature 412:467
A journal article with 2 authors
Eiben AE, Smith J (2015) From evolutionary computation to the evolution of things. Nature 521:476–482
A journal article with 3 authors
Jayne BC, Voris HK, Ng PKL (2002) Snake circumvents constraints on prey size. Nature 418:143
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Asahara A, Chen S, Ito T, et al (2014) Direct generation of 2-ps blue pulses from gain-switched InGaN VCSEL assessed by up-conversion technique. Sci Rep 4:6401

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Bender HF (2002) Das Gefahrstoffbuch. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG
An edited book
Roermund AHM, Casier H, Steyaert M (eds) (2010) Analog Circuit Design: Smart Data Converters, Filters on Chip, Multimode Transmitters. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht
A chapter in an edited book
Leveling J, Zhou D, Jones GJF, Wade V (2010) Document Expansion, Query Translation and Language Modeling for Ad-Hoc IR. In: Peters C, Nunzio GMD, Kurimo M, et al. (eds) Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I. Text Retrieval Experiments: 10th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 30 - October 2, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 58–61

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 Mineralogy and Petrology.

Blog post
Carpineti A (2017) A Climate Change Study Just Got Canceled Due To Climate Change. 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 (1992) Shuttle Rocket Motor Program: NASA Should Delay Awarding Some Construction Contracts. 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
Bottorff EA (2011) The community college baccalaureate: A study of capital costs in Florida. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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
Rosenberg E, Medina J, Eligon J (2016) Protesters Take Anti-Trump Message to His Doorstep, and Plan Next Move. New York Times A25

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodman 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Goodman 2001; Eiben and Smith 2015).

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

  • Two authors: (Eiben and Smith 2015)
  • Three or more authors: (Asahara et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleMineralogy and Petrology
AbbreviationMineral. Petrol.
ISSN (print)0930-0708
ISSN (online)1438-1168
ScopeGeochemistry and Petrology
Geophysics

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