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]

D.B. Amabilino, Chemistry. How deformation can lend a hand to molecular ordering, Science. 325 (2009) 402–403.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.D. Mathieu, A.M. Geller, A binary star fraction of 76 per cent and unusual orbit parameters for the blue stragglers of NGC 188, Nature. 462 (2009) 1032–1035.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Szlufarska, A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, A crossover in the mechanical response of nanocrystalline ceramics, Science. 309 (2005) 911–914.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E.M. Langdon, Y. Qiu, A. Ghanbari Niaki, G.A. McLaughlin, C.A. Weidmann, T.M. Gerbich, J.A. Smith, J.M. Crutchley, C.M. Termini, K.M. Weeks, S. Myong, A.S. Gladfelter, mRNA structure determines specificity of a polyQ-driven phase separation, Science. 360 (2018) 922–927.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Bachmann, A. Steinle, Precast Concrete Structures, Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

M.H. Fulekar, B. Pathak, R.K. Kale, eds., Environment and Sustainable Development, Springer India, New Delhi, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W.Y. Chen, C.Y. Jim, Assessment and Valuation of the Ecosystem Services Provided by Urban Forests, in: M.M. Carreiro, Y.-C. Song, J. Wu (Eds.), Ecology, Planning, and Management of Urban Forests: International Perspectives, Springer, New York, NY, 2008: pp. 53–83.

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, Researchers Discover Brain Cell Changes That Contribute To Alzheimer’s Development In Down’s Syndrome Individuals, IFLScience. (2014).

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, Status of Project PISCES, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

I.G. Momcheva, Environments of strong gravitational lenses, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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]

M.J. de la MERCED, B Capital Group Names Start-Up Star Its Chairman, New York Times. (2017) B4.

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

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