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

Sonnenburg JL (2015) Microbiome engineering. Nature 518:S10

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor PG, Townsend AR (2010) Stoichiometric control of organic carbon-nitrate relationships from soils to the sea. Nature 464:1178–1181

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen Z, Yang H, Pavletich NP (2008) Mechanism of homologous recombination from the RecA-ssDNA/dsDNA structures. Nature 453:489–484

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen WG, Chang Q, Lin Y, et al (2003) Derepression of BDNF transcription involves calcium-dependent phosphorylation of MeCP2. Science 302:885–889

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tagliamonte SA (2015) Making Waves. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sundnes J (2006) Computing the Electrical Activity in the Heart. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hashim H (2008) Local Anesthesia and Nerve Blocks. In: Hashim H, Abrams P, Dmochowski R (eds) The Handbook of Office Urological Procedures. Springer, London, pp 32–34

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

Andrews R (2016) The “Red King” Pattern Of Evolution Is Often Replaced By The “Red Queen.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/red-king-pattern-evolution-replaced-red-queen/. 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 (2000) SBA Loan Monitoring System: Substantial Progress Yet Key Risks and Challenges Remain. 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

Uthe PB (2010) The development of polycationic materials for gene delivery applications. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Kelly M (1993) THE INAUGURATION: Seizing the Day; New President Brings Opportunity to Cash In. New York Times A12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sonnenburg 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Taylor and Townsend 2010; Sonnenburg 2015).

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

Two authors: (Taylor and Townsend 2010)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2003)

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