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

Rogers, K.C. Nuclear Research. The Past and Future of University Research Reactors. Science 2002, 295, 2217–2218.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gallotti, R.; Barthelemy, M. Anatomy and Efficiency of Urban Multimodal Mobility. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6911.

A journal article with 3 authors

Holt, B.F., 3rd; Belkhadir, Y.; Dangl, J.L. Antagonistic Control of Disease Resistance Protein Stability in the Plant Immune System. Science 2005, 309, 929–932.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peng, X.; Zhou, R.; Wang, B.; Yu, X.; Yang, X.; Liu, K.; Mi, M. Effect of Green Tea Consumption on Blood Pressure: A Meta-Analysis of 13 Randomized Controlled Trials. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6251.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sears, R.W.; Chard, K.M. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016; ISBN 9781118691403.

An edited book

Transcriptional and Translational Regulation of Stem Cells; Hime, G., Abud, H., Eds.; Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013; Vol. 786; ISBN 9789400766204.

A chapter in an edited book

Nagashima, Y.; Kunihiro, N. Faster Algorithm for Solving Hard Knapsacks for Moderate Message Length. In Information Security and Privacy: 17th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2012, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, July 9-11, 2012. Proceedings; Susilo, W., Mu, Y., Seberry, J., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 43–56 ISBN 9783642314476.

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. Amateur Fossil Hunter Discovered Complete, 7ft Skeleton Of Ancient Marine Reptile Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/complete-7ft-skeleton-ancient-marine-reptile-discovered-uk-beach/ (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 Kachemak Bay Ferry: Federally Funded Ferry Was Constructed with Limited Oversight and Faces Future Operating Challenges; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2012;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jaime, A.A. “Cockroach Centuries”: The Cockroach Image as the Conduit for the Marginalized Beat Woman and Artist in Elise Cowen’s Cockroach Poetry. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Glionna, J.M. A Vietnam-Era Deserter Hopes to Rally a New Antiwar Generation. New York Times 2016, A13.

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