How to format your references using the Measurement citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Measurement. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

[1]

S.B. Carroll, Evolution. How great wings can look alike, Science 333 (2011) 1100–1101.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Seife, D. Malakoff, PHYSICS: Will Livermore Laser Ever Burn Brightly?, Science 289 (2000) 1126–1129.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Chih, H. Engelman, P. Scheiffele, Control of excitatory and inhibitory synapse formation by neuroligins, Science 307 (2005) 1324–1328.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Nie, T. Stevens, Y. Song, J.W. King, R. Zhang, S. Ji, L. Gong, D. Cares, Pacific freshening drives Pliocene cooling and Asian monsoon intensification, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5474.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Chandra, Energy, Entropy and Engines, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

C. Mahlow, M. Piotrowski, eds., State of the Art in Computational Morphology: Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology, SFCM 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, September 4, 2009. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.C. de Amorim, T. Fenner, Weighting Features for Partition around Medoids Using the Minkowski Metric, in: J. Hollmén, F. Klawonn, A. Tucker (Eds.), Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XI: 11th International Symposium, IDA 2012, Helsinki, Finland, October 25-27, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 35–44.

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 Measurement.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Check Out These Trippy Photographs Of Australia Taken From The International Space Station, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/beautiful-and-trippy-photos-australia-space/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Telecommunications: 1991 Survey of Cable Television Rates and Services, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y. Kwon, Extreme value estimators: Their long memory feature and forecasting performances in the U.S. stock indexes, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2009.

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

[1]

N. Popper, Muni Rates Examined For Signs Of Rigging, New York Times (2012) B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Measurement
Abbreviation	Measurement (Lond.)
ISSN (print)	0263-2241
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Applied Mathematics Condensed Matter Physics Instrumentation