How to format your references using the Measurement Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Measurement Science and Technology. 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 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]

Kephart J O 2011 Computer science. Learning from nature Science 331 682–3

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Yau S T and Vekilov P G 2000 Quasi-planar nucleus structure in apoferritin crystallization Nature 406 494–7

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rignot E, Rivera A and Casassa G 2003 Contribution of the Patagonia Icefields of South America to sea level rise Science 302 434–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Foy E, Li K, Wang C, Sumpter R Jr, Ikeda M, Lemon S M and Gale M Jr 2003 Regulation of interferon regulatory factor-3 by the hepatitis C virus serine protease Science 300 1145–8

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dickenson J, Freeman F, Mills C L, Sivasubramaniam S and Thode C 2012 Molecular Pharmacology (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Timm I J and Guttmann C 2012 Multiagent System Technologies: 10th German Conference, MATES 2012, Trier, Germany, October 10-12, 2012. Proceedings vol 7598 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

van der Spek H L A, Holm C W M and Wijshoff H A G 2012 A Compilation Framework for the Automatic Restructuring of Pointer-Linked Data Structures High-Performance Scientific Computing: Algorithms and Applications ed M W Berry, K A Gallivan, E Gallopoulos, A Grama, B Philippe, Y Saad and F Saied (London: Springer) pp 97–122

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 Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2014 Amateur Fossil Hunter Discovered Complete, 7ft Skeleton Of Ancient Marine Reptile IFLScience

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 1991 Computer Security: Hackers Penetrate DOD Computer Systems (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Alexandre K M 2009 Identifying mechanisms regulating Wnt signaling during postembryonic development Doctoral dissertation (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina)

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]

Prochnik G 2017 He Remade Kings New York Times BR17

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 Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Meas. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0957-0233
ISSN (online)	1361-6501
Scope	Applied Mathematics Instrumentation