How to format your references using the Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties. 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]

Blackburn G L 2001 Pasteur’s Quadrant and malnutrition Nature 409 397–401

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Foster G L and Vance D 2006 Negligible glacial-interglacial variation in continental chemical weathering rates Nature 444 918–21

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dorman S N, Viner C and Rogan P K 2014 Splicing mutation analysis reveals previously unrecognized pathways in lymph node-invasive breast cancer Sci. Rep. 4 7063

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Fox A R, Bart S C, Meyer K and Cummins C C 2008 Towards uranium catalysts Nature 455 341–9

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Assing D and Calé S 2013 Mobile Access Safety (Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Brown D 2011 Arc-Continent Collision ed P D Ryan (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wang J G and Yang J 2016 The New Membership of Loan Club—P2P Online Lending Financing without Bank Loans: New Alternatives for Funding SMEs in China ed J Yang (Singapore: Springer) pp 55–72

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 Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2014 Herschel Discovers Water Building Molecules Around Dying Stars 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 Federal Research: Super Collider Estimates and Germany’s Industrially Produced Magnets (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]

Tam R 2013 Adaptation of AspectJ for C sharp Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Kolomatsky M 2017 Singles in the House New York Times RE2

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	Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties
Abbreviation	Surf. Topogr.
ISSN (online)	2051-672X
Scope