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]

R.S. Brown, Hepatitis C and liver transplantation, Nature 436 (2005) 973–978.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Frey, M. Church, Geophysics. How river beds move, Science 325 (2009) 1509–1510.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Tanaka, M.R. Sawaya, T.O. Yeates, Structure and mechanisms of a protein-based organelle in Escherichia coli, Science 327 (2010) 81–84.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Föhlisch, P. Feulner, F. Hennies, A. Fink, D. Menzel, D. Sanchez-Portal, P.M. Echenique, W. Wurth, Direct observation of electron dynamics in the attosecond domain, Nature 436 (2005) 373–376.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Beach, The Responsible Conduct of Research, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 1996.

An edited book

[1]

V. Koshmanenko, The Method of Rigged Spaces in Singular Perturbation Theory of Self-Adjoint Operators, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Neubauer, M. Kolb, An Evaluation of Technologies for the Pseudonymization of Medical Data, in: R. Lee, G. Hu, H. Miao (Eds.), Computer and Information Science 2009, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 47–60.

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]

E. Andrew, Depression Associated With Higher Risk Of Developing Parkinson’s, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/depression-associated-higher-risk-developing-parkinsons/ (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, Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.L. Katz, Graduate nursing students’ perceptions regarding caring for patients with HIV, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

C. Kelly, Film Delves Into Lives of Strippers in Dallas, New York Times (2014) A27B.

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