How to format your references using the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physics and Chemistry of 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

Lill R (2009) Function and biogenesis of iron-sulphur proteins. Nature 460:831–838

A journal article with 2 authors

Wills-Karp M, Karp CL (2004) Biomedicine. Eosinophils in asthma: remodeling a tangled tale. Science 305:1726–1729

A journal article with 3 authors

Schaller T, Goujon C, Malim MH (2012) AIDS/HIV. HIV interplay with SAMHD1. Science 335:1313–1314

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Stadler MB, Murr R, Burger L, et al (2011) DNA-binding factors shape the mouse methylome at distal regulatory regions. Nature 480:490–495

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Derryberry DR (2014) Basic Data Analysis for Time Series with R. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Baier D, Decker R, Schmidt-Thieme L (eds) (2005) Data Analysis and Decision Support. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Yang Q, Su L, Li Q, Xu X (2005) Cooperative Target Localization Method for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks. In: Lu X, Zhao W (eds) Networking and Mobile Computing: Third International Conference, ICCNMC 2005, Zhangjiajie, China, August 2-4, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 13–22

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 Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2017) Breakthrough Lets Scientists Predict When Quantum Systems Will Fail. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/breakthrough-lets-scientists-predict-when-quantum-systems-will-fail/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1979) Alternatives for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Public School Financial Assistance Program. 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

Parker HA (2017) Virtual Mate Poaching: A study of the tactics used to poach a potential mate on Social Networking Sites. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Butler P (2011) Jurors Need to Know That They Can Say No. New York Times A39

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lill 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Wills-Karp and Karp 2004; Lill 2009).

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

Two authors: (Wills-Karp and Karp 2004)
Three or more authors: (Stadler et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Physics and Chemistry of Minerals
Abbreviation	Phys. Chem. Miner.
ISSN (print)	0342-1791
ISSN (online)	1432-2021
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology General Materials Science