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

Garman EF (2014) Developments in x-ray crystallographic structure determination of biological macromolecules. Science 343:1102–1108

A journal article with 2 authors

Ridderinkhof KR, van den Wildenberg WPM (2005) Neuroscience. Adaptive coding. Science 307:1059–1060

A journal article with 3 authors

Merkle FT, Mirzadeh Z, Alvarez-Buylla A (2007) Mosaic organization of neural stem cells in the adult brain. Science 317:381–384

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kukushkin IV, Smet JH, Scarola VW, et al (2009) Dispersion of the excitations of fractional quantum Hall States. Science 324:1044–1047

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vorbrüggen H (2005) Silicon-Mediated Transformations of Functional Groups. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Tomkos I, Spyropoulou M, Ennser K, et al (eds) (2009) Towards Digital Optical Networks: COST Action 291 Final Report. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Singh H, Pongubala JMR, Medina KL (2007) Gene Regulatory Networks that Orchestrate the Development of B Lymphocyte Precursors. In: Gupta S, Alt F, Cooper M, et al. (eds) Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Activation and Immune Regulation XI: B Cell Biology. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 57–62

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) Study Suggests Fish Oil Supplements Don’t Prevent Mental Decline. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-suggests-fish-oil-supplements-don-t-prevent-mental-decline/. 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 (2007) Commercial Aviation: Potential Safety and Capacity Issues Associated with the Introduction of the New A380 Aircraft. 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

Delaney DC (2014) Undergraduate social work students’ perceptions regarding hospice and end-of-life care. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Baker L (2006) A Neighborhood Rises From the Waterfront. New York Times RE12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garman 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ridderinkhof and van den Wildenberg 2005; Garman 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ridderinkhof and van den Wildenberg 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kukushkin et al. 2009)

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