How to format your references using the Metrologia citation style

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

Scadden D T 2006 The stem-cell niche as an entity of action Nature 441 1075–9

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bell A C and Felsenfeld G 2000 Methylation of a CTCF-dependent boundary controls imprinted expression of the Igf2 gene Nature 405 482–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Oberholzer S, Sukhorukov E V and Schönenberger C 2002 Crossover between classical and quantum shot noise in chaotic cavities Nature 415 765–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Abdul Ajees A, Gunasekaran K, Volanakis J E, Narayana S V L, Kotwal G J and Murthy H M K 2006 The structure of complement C3b provides insights into complement activation and regulation Nature 444 221–5

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wesche R 2015 Physical Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Damro C 2016 European Competition Policy and Globalization ed T R Guay (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Vázquez Álvarez A J and Erwin R S 2015 Optimal Satellite Range Scheduling An Introduction to Optimal Satellite Range Scheduling Springer Optimization and Its Applications ed R S Erwin (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 49–73

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 Metrologia.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A 2016 Spotting The Solos In The Cosmic Choir Of Black Holes 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 1989 ADP Budget: Potential Reductions to Army Automation Initiatives (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]

Maddox C E 2012 Postcolonial play: Encounters with sport and physical culture in contemporary India Doctoral dissertation (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park)

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]

Marx L 2010 Michelle McGann and Jonathan Satter New York Times ST10

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	Metrologia
Abbreviation	Metrologia
ISSN (print)	0026-1394
ISSN (online)	1681-7575
Scope	General Engineering