How to format your references using the Mineral Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mineral Economics. 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

Cess RD (2005) Atmospheric science. Water vapor feedback in climate models. Science 310:795–796

A journal article with 2 authors

Plous S, Herzog H (2001) Animal research. Reliability of protocol reviews for animal research. Science 293:608–609

A journal article with 3 authors

Smilkov D, Hidalgo CA, Kocarev L (2014) Beyond network structure: How heterogeneous susceptibility modulates the spread of epidemics. Sci Rep 4:4795

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kawamura T, Suzuki J, Wang YV, et al (2009) Linking the p53 tumour suppressor pathway to somatic cell reprogramming. Nature 460:1140–1144

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grant G (2012) Ecosystem Services Come to Town. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Pickering R (2016) Beginning F# 4.0, 2nd ed. 2016. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Tu Z, Xu X (2016) Requirement Pattern Elicitation Approach of Massive Customers in Domain Oriented Service Requirement Engineering. In: Mertins K, Jardim-Gonçalves R, Popplewell K, Mendonça JP (eds) Enterprise Interoperability VII: Enterprise Interoperability in the Digitized and Networked Factory of the Future. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 53–75

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 Mineral Economics.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Cassini Sees Canyons On Titan. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-sees-canyons-on-titan/. 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 (2013) Information Technology: OMB and Agencies Need to Focus Continued Attention on Eliminating Duplicative Investments. 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

Makovec MG (2008) A study of the factors predicting attrition and contributing to the attrition rate of high school teachers in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Branch J (2017) No White House Visit? Actually, No Invitation. New York Times B13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cess 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Plous and Herzog 2001; Cess 2005).

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

Two authors: (Plous and Herzog 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kawamura et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mineral Economics
Abbreviation	Miner. Econ.
ISSN (print)	2191-2203
ISSN (online)	2191-2211
Scope	Economic Geology Geography, Planning and Development