How to format your references using the Mine Water and the Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mine Water and the Environment. 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 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

Bouwmeester D (2014) Quantum mechanics. The quantum nondemolition derby. Science 344:1224–1226

A journal article with 2 authors

Paul SM, Beitel GJ (2003) Developmental biology. Tubulogenesis CLICs into place. Science 302:2077–2078

A journal article with 3 authors

Hung C-L, Gurarie V, Chin C (2013) From cosmology to cold atoms: observation of Sakharov oscillations in a quenched atomic superfluid. Science 341:1213–1215

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gabaix X, Gopikrishnan P, Plerou V, Stanley HE (2003) A theory of power-law distributions in financial market fluctuations. Nature 423:267–270

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Turner JE, Downing DJ, Bogard JS (2012) Statistical Methods in Radiation Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Ohsawa Y, Tsumoto S (eds) (2006) Chance Discoveries in Real World Decision Making: Data-based Interaction of Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Borretti C, Degrace J-N, Cova P (2012) The French Vigilance System. Contributing to the Reduction of Disaster Risks in France. In: Golnaraghi M (ed) Institutional Partnerships in Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems: A Compilation of Seven National Good Practices and Guiding Principles. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 63–93

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 Mine Water and the Environment.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Clownfish Seem To Enjoy Warmer Waters. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/clownfish-seem-enjoy-warmer-waters/. 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 (2015) Special Education: More Flexible Spending Requirement Could Mitigate Unintended Consequences While Protecting Services. 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

Papacostaki M (2010) Under the black sun. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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 C (2007) In a Hospital Stay, No Time to Rest. New York Times F5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bouwmeester 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Paul and Beitel 2003; Bouwmeester 2014).

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

Two authors: (Paul and Beitel 2003)
Three or more authors: (Gabaix et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mine Water and the Environment
Abbreviation	Mine Water Environ.
ISSN (print)	1025-9112
ISSN (online)	1616-1068
Scope	Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Water Science and Technology