How to format your references using the Minerals citation style

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

Lusis, A.J. Atherosclerosis. Nature 2000, 407, 233–241.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Putten, M.H.P.M.; Levinson, A. Detecting Energy Emissions from a Rotating Black Hole. Science 2002, 295, 1874–1877.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martianov, I.; Viville, S.; Davidson, I. RNA Polymerase II Transcription in Murine Cells Lacking the TATA Binding Protein. Science 2002, 298, 1036–1039.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Weihofen, A.; Binns, K.; Lemberg, M.K.; Ashman, K.; Martoglio, B. Identification of Signal Peptide Peptidase, a Presenilin-Type Aspartic Protease. Science 2002, 296, 2215–2218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balakrishnan, N.; Koutras, M.V. Runs and Scans with Applications: Balakrishnan/Runs; Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2001; ISBN 9781118150467.

An edited book

Internal Medicine: An Illustrated Radiological Guide; Al-Tubaikh, J.A., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; ISBN 9783642037085.

A chapter in an edited book

Prasek, D. EBRD Environmental and Social Governance Standards and Their Impact on the Market. In Responsible Investment Banking: Risk Management Frameworks, Sustainable Financial Innovation and Softlaw Standards; Wendt, K., Ed.; CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 71–79 ISBN 9783319103105.

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 Minerals.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. FDA Warns Common Food Ingredient Can Be Fatal To Dogs Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fda-warns-artificial-sweetener-can-be-fatal-dogs/ (accessed on 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 Need for Improved Management and Increased Sharing of Computer Resources at the San Antonio Data Services Center; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1980;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Equihua, D. The Relationship of Mental Health and Family Factors to Parental Involvement in Their Children’s Education among Latina Mothers. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

(nyt), S.K. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Another Sign Explodes. New York Times 2002, A6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Minerals
Abbreviation	Minerals (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2075-163X
Scope