How to format your references using the Minerals Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Minerals Engineering. 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	Download the output style file
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

Zurek, W.H., 2001. Sub-Planck structure in phase space and its relevance for quantum decoherence. Nature 412, 712–717.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vähärautio, A., Taipale, J., 2014. Cancer. Cancer by super-enhancer. Science 346, 1291–1292.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tenenbaum, J.B., de Silva, V., Langford, J.C., 2000. A global geometric framework for nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Science 290, 2319–2323.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Johnson, M.W., Amin, M.H.S., Gildert, S., Lanting, T., Hamze, F., Dickson, N., Harris, R., Berkley, A.J., Johansson, J., Bunyk, P., Chapple, E.M., Enderud, C., Hilton, J.P., Karimi, K., Ladizinsky, E., Ladizinsky, N., Oh, T., Perminov, I., Rich, C., Thom, M.C., Tolkacheva, E., Truncik, C.J.S., Uchaikin, S., Wang, J., Wilson, B., Rose, G., 2011. Quantum annealing with manufactured spins. Nature 473, 194–198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stone, C.A., Zissu, A., 2012. The Securitization Markets Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

García-Tejero, I.F., 2011. Water and Sustainable Agriculture, SpringerBriefs in Agriculture. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Camacho-Tapia, N., Beltrán-Fernández, J.A., Gonzalez-Rebattú-y González, M., Hernández-Gómez, L.H., Moreno-Garibaldi, P., Urriolagoitia-Calderón, G., López-Liévano, D., 2014. Numerical Study in Biomodels of Maxillofacial Prosthesis (Cancer and Osteonecrosis Cases), in: Öchsner, A., Altenbach, H. (Eds.), Design and Computation of Modern Engineering Materials, Advanced Structured Materials. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 59–72.

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 Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Death Match: Tarantula vs. Wasp [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2015. Air Traffic Control: FAA Needs a More Comprehensive Approach to Address Cybersecurity As Agency Transitions to NextGen (No. GAO-15-370). 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

Eggleston, B.P., 2014. An Investigation of the Difference in Student Achievement during the Middle School Transition Years (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2005. JUSTICES TO RULE ON A CHALLENGE TO U.S. TRIBUNALS. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zurek, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Vähärautio and Taipale, 2014; Zurek, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Vähärautio and Taipale, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Johnson et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Minerals Engineering
Abbreviation	Miner. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0892-6875
Scope	General Chemistry Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Control and Systems Engineering Mechanical Engineering