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 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

Lisse, C.M., 2012. Astronomy. The final flight of a Sun-diving comet. Science 335, 296–297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, L., Anderson, D.J., 2010. Identification of an aggression-promoting pheromone and its receptor neurons in Drosophila. Nature 463, 227–231.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaiser, T.E., Intine, R.V., Dundr, M., 2008. De novo formation of a subnuclear body. Science 322, 1713–1717.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lev, M., Ludwig, K., Gilaie-Dotan, S., Voss, S., Sterzer, P., Hesselmann, G., Polat, U., 2014. Training improves visual processing speed and generalizes to untrained functions. Sci. Rep. 4, 7251.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertin, E., Crespi, N., Pujolle, G., 2013. Architecture and Governance for Communication Services. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Guo, S., Wong, L. (Eds.), 2015. Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada: Theories, Policies and Debates, Transnational Migration and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Principe, J.C., McFarland, D.J., 2008. BMI/BCI Modeling and Signal Processing, in: Chapin, J.K., Gerhardt, G.A., McFarland, D.J., Principe, J.C., Soussou, W.V., Taylor, D.M., Tresco, P.A. (Eds.), Brain-Computer Interfaces: An International Assessment of Research and Development Trends. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 47–64.

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., 2015. Why You Shouldn’t Order Human Breast Milk For Adults Online [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1995. Early Childhood Programs: Promoting the Development of Young Children in Denmark, France, and Italy (No. HEHS-95-45BR). 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

Kasun, K.K., 2010. Economic effectiveness of physician organizational models in a California integrated healthcare system (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2011. A County In Alabama Puts Off Bankruptcy. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lisse, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Lisse, 2012; Wang and Anderson, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Anderson, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Lev et al., 2014)

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