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

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Cochrane M A 2003 Fire science for rainforests Nature 421 913–9

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rost S and Revenaugh J 2001 Seismic detection of rigid zones at the top of the core Science 294 1911–4

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Scales S J, Finley M F and Scheller R H 2001 Cell biology. Fusion without SNAREs? Science 294 1015–6

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Roszak A W, Howard T D, Southall J, Gardiner A T, Law C J, Isaacs N W and Cogdell R J 2003 Crystal structure of the RC-LH1 core complex from Rhodopseudomonas palustris Science 302 1969–72

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Illian J, Penttinen A, Stoyan H and Stoyan D 2008 Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Point Patterns (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Turner B 2012 The Statesman’s Yearbook: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World 2013 (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Williams K, March L and Wassell S R 2010 Leon Battista Alberti, De componendis cifris The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti ed K Williams, L March and S R Wassell (Basel: Springer) pp 169–200

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

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Davis J 2017 Fungi Found In Toxic Lake Produce New Antibiotic 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

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Government Accountability Office 1995 Government Aircraft: Observations on Travel by Senior Officials (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

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Gillespie L 2014 Trust in Leadership: Investigation of Andragogical Learning and Implications for Student Placement Outcomes Doctoral dissertation ( St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood University)

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

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Hollander S 2000 Lose One, Win One New York Times D5

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