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 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

Walsh C (2001) correction: Enabling the chemistry of life. Nature 411:824

A journal article with 2 authors

Vivier E, Biron CA (2002) Immunology. A pathogen receptor on natural killer cells. Science 296:1248–1249

A journal article with 3 authors

Guo G, Wang W, Bradley A (2004) Mismatch repair genes identified using genetic screens in Blm-deficient embryonic stem cells. Nature 429:891–895

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ross JM, Coppotelli G, Hoffer BJ, Olson L (2014) Maternally transmitted mitochondrial DNA mutations can reduce lifespan. Sci Rep 4:6569

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Doeuff R, Zaïm MEH (2013) Rotating Electrical Machines. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Quay J, Seaman J (eds) (2013) John Dewey and Education Outdoors: Making Sense of the ‘Educational Situation’ through more than a Century of Progressive Reforms. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Chirichello M (2010) The Principal as Educational Leader: What Makes the Difference. In: Huber S (ed) School Leadership - International Perspectives. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 79–100

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

Fang J (2016) Dragons Have REM Sleep Too. In: IFLScience. 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 (1996) EPA: Final Regulations for Revisions to the Federal Test Procedure for Emissions from Motor Vehicles. 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

Amanoua KP (2014) Langue et identité dans les milieux populaires québécois et antillais. 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

Williams J (2016) What You’ll Be Reading in 2017. New York Times BR4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walsh 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Walsh 2001; Vivier and Biron 2002).

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

Two authors: (Vivier and Biron 2002)
Three or more authors: (Ross et al. 2014)

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