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:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Freeman KH (2009) Journal club. A biogeochemist ponders muddy molecules and past climates. Nature 462:701

A journal article with 2 authors

Scholes RJ, Noble IR (2001) Climate change. Storing carbon on land. Science 294:1012–1013

A journal article with 3 authors

Riehl S, Zeidi M, Conard NJ (2013) Emergence of agriculture in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Science 341:65–67

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Baugh J, Moussa O, Ryan CA, et al (2005) Experimental implementation of heat-bath algorithmic cooling using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. Nature 438:470–473

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silverstein D, Samuel P, Decarlo N (2008) The Innovator’s Toolkit. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Fulekar MH, Pathak B, Kale RK (eds) (2014) Environment and Sustainable Development. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Van Landeghem H (2009) Pharmaceutical Distribution Network. In: Merkuryev Y, Merkuryeva G, Piera MÀ, Guasch A (eds) Simulation-Based Case Studies in Logistics: Education and Applied Research. Springer, London, pp 49–64

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

Andrew E (2015) Five Years Of The Tories Creates Uncertainty For British Science. 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 (1979) Automated Systems Security--Federal Agencies Should Strengthen Safeguards Over Personal and Other Sensitive Data. 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

Tosti CL (2009) Quantification of dispersed and aggregated iron in vivo by magnetic resonance imaging. 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

Billard M (2010) The Engineered Shoe. New York Times E5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Freeman 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Scholes and Noble 2001; Freeman 2009).

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

Two authors: (Scholes and Noble 2001)
Three or more authors: (Baugh et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mineralogy and Petrology
Abbreviation	Mineral. Petrol.
ISSN (print)	0930-0708
ISSN (online)	1438-1168
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics