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

Di Lorenzo, E., 2015. Climate science: The future of coastal ocean upwelling. Nature 518, 310–311.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lyerly, A.D., Faden, R.R., 2007. Embryonic stem cells. Willingness to donate frozen embryos for stem cell research. Science 317, 46–47.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ingle, N.J.C., Beasley, M.R., Geballe, T.H., 2002. Superconductivity in a spin-ladder cuprate. Science 295, 1967.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, X., Xiang, Q., Liu, B., Wang, L., Luo, T., Chen, D., Shen, G., 2013. TiO2 modified FeS nanostructures with enhanced electrochemical performance for lithium-ion batteries. Sci. Rep. 3, 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chan, N.H., Wong, H.Y., 2013. Handbook of Financial Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mak, P.-I., 2012. High-/Mixed-Voltage Analog and RF Circuit Techniques for Nanoscale CMOS, Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Toulouevski, Y.N., Zinurov, I.Y., 2015. Methods of Realization of High-Temperature Scrap Preheating, in: Zinurov, I.Y. (Ed.), Electric Arc Furnace with Flat Bath: Achievements and Prospects, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 69–82.

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., 2015. What Human Emotions Do We Really Want Of Artificial Intelligence? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/what-human-emotions-do-we-really-want-artificial-intelligence/ (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, 2014. Public Transportation: Federal Role Key to Rural and Tribal Transit (No. GAO-14-589). 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

Goldstein, J., 2012. Murder in Colonial Albany: European and Indian Responses to Cross-Cultural Murders (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2015. Teamsters Pension Fund Warns 400,000 of Cuts. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Di Lorenzo, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Di Lorenzo, 2015; Lyerly and Faden, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lyerly and Faden, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

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