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

Buckingham, M. A Cellular Cornucopia. Nature 2000, 408, 773.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bever, T.; Montalbetti, M. Linguistics. Noam’s Ark. Science 2002, 298, 1565–1566.

A journal article with 3 authors

Labrosse, S.; Hernlund, J.W.; Coltice, N. A Crystallizing Dense Magma Ocean at the Base of the Earth’s Mantle. Nature 2007, 450, 866–869.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, S.-H.; Hung, W.-C.; Wang, P.; Paul, C.; Konstantopoulos, K. Mesothelin Binding to CA125/MUC16 Promotes Pancreatic Cancer Cell Motility and Invasion via MMP-7 Activation. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1870.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bobrow, J.; Fisher, S.; Mondragon-Gilmore, J.; Casson, A.; Orton, P.Z.; Nathan, H.D.; Jones, J.; Hays, J.; Kohn, E.; Christinson, J.; et al. CliffsNotes® CSET®; Wiley Publishing, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2009; ISBN 9781118266410.

An edited book

Recursion: Complexity in Cognition; Roeper, T., Speas, M., Eds.; Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; Vol. 43; ISBN 9783319050850.

A chapter in an edited book

Assavapokee, T.; Realff, M.J.; Ammons, J.C. A Relative Robust Optimization Approach for Full Factorial Scenario Design of Data Uncertainty and Ambiguity. In Optimization and Logistics Challenges in the Enterprise; Chaovalitwongse, W., Furman, K.C., Pardalos, P.M., Eds.; Springer Optimization and Its Applications; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2009; pp. 145–174 ISBN 9780387886169.

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

Andrew, E. This Is What the Brain of a Stroke Survivor Looks Like (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 Technology: America’s Schools Not Designed or Equipped for 21st Century; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1995;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chin, S.-H. A Performer’s Guide to Howard Hanson’s “Four Poems (Poèmes Érotiques)”, Opus 9. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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

(mrs M S ) Isabella Rosenbach and Books. New York Times 1960, The New York Times Book ReviewBR15.

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