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

Chen, I.A., 2006. GE Prize-winning essay. The emergence of cells during the origin of life. Science 314, 1558–1559.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thyer, R., Ellefson, J., 2014. Synthetic biology: New letters for life’s alphabet. Nature 509, 291–292.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carpi, F., Bauer, S., De Rossi, D., 2010. Materials science. Stretching dielectric elastomer performance. Science 330, 1759–1761.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vos, M., Birkett, P.J., Birch, E., Griffiths, R.I., Buckling, A., 2009. Local adaptation of bacteriophages to their bacterial hosts in soil. Science 325, 833.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glisic, S., 2005. Advanced Wireless Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Phillips, F., Lieberman, I., Polly, D. (Eds.), 2014. Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: Surgical Techniques and Disease Management. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Inman, A.G., Tummala-Narra, P., 2014. Immigration and Human Rights, in: Miville, M.L., Ferguson, A.D. (Eds.), Handbook of Race-Ethnicity and Gender in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 87–109.

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. Scientists Change Butterfly Wings From Brown To Violet In Just 6 Generations [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-change-butterfly-wings-brown-violet-just-6-generations/ (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, 1994. Higher Education: Grants Effective at Increasing Minorities’ Chances of Graduating (No. T-HEHS-94-168). 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

Walsh, C.T., 2005. Molecular Pharmacodynamics of Chemotherapy: Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF) Inhibitors as Chemosensitizers (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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 Reject Appeal in Tobacco Case. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chen, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chen, 2006; Thyer and Ellefson, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Thyer and Ellefson, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Vos et al., 2009)

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