How to format your references using the Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Putterman L (2014) Behavioural economics: A caring majority secures the future. Nature 511:165–166

A journal article with 2 authors

Jordan MI, Mitchell TM (2015) Machine learning: Trends, perspectives, and prospects. Science 349:255–260

A journal article with 3 authors

Berkhout B, Das AT, Beerens N (2001) HIV-1 RNA editing, hypermutation, and error-prone reverse transcription. Science 292:7

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Niewoehner WA, Bergstrom A, Eichele D, et al (2003) Digital analysis: Manual dexterity in Neanderthals. Nature 422:395

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Demaria C (2013) Introduction to Private Equity. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Irie M, Yokoyama Y, Seki T (eds) (2013) New Frontiers in Photochromism. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Lacoin H (2014) The Scaling Limit for Zero-Temperature Planar Ising Droplets: With and Without Magnetic Fields. In: Ramírez AF, Ben Arous G, Ferrari PA, et al. (eds) Topics in Percolative and Disordered Systems. Springer, New York, NY, pp 85–120

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 Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Young Star Theory Forged From A Near Miss With A Giant Black Hole. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/young-star-theory-forged-near-miss-giant-black-hole/. 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 (2001) National Airspace System: Long-Term Capacity Planning Needed Despite Recent Reduction in Flight Delays. 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

Carrier TH (2017) Using Grunig’s Situational Theory for Analysis of Frames in Human Trafficking Awareness Organizations’ YouTube Videos. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Kelly M (1992) Insult My Mom, Please. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Putterman 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Putterman 2014; Jordan and Mitchell 2015).

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

Two authors: (Jordan and Mitchell 2015)
Three or more authors: (Niewoehner et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
Abbreviation	Contrib. Mineral. Petrol.
ISSN (print)	0010-7999
ISSN (online)	1432-0967
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics