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]

Faedi F 2015 Exoplanets: A glimpse of Earth’s fate Nature 526 515–6

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wilks J and Golovkina T 2015 Immunology. Interfering with interferons Science 347 233–4

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wang J, Mei Y and Hicks D 2014 Science communication. Comment on “Quantifying long-term scientific impact” Science 345 149

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Keeling M J, Woolhouse M E, Shaw D J, Matthews L, Chase-Topping M, Haydon D T, Cornell S J, Kappey J, Wilesmith J and Grenfell B T 2001 Dynamics of the 2001 UK foot and mouth epidemic: stochastic dispersal in a heterogeneous landscape Science 294 813–7

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Donham K J and Thelin A 2016 Agricultural Medicine (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc)

An edited book

[1]

Al-araji S R 2006 Digital Phase Lock Loops: Architectures and Applications ed Z M Hussain and M A Al-qutayri (Boston, MA: Springer US)

A chapter in an edited book

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Jaroszewicz L R, Kurzych A, Krajewski Z, Kowalski J K and Teisseyre K P 2016 FOSREM: Fibre-Optic System for Rotational Events and Phenomena Monitoring: Construction, Investigation and Area of Application Seismic Behaviour and Design of Irregular and Complex Civil Structures II Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering ed Z Zembaty and M De Stefano (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 49–64

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

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Davis J 2017 Scientists Think They Have Figured Out How Stress Can Increase Heart Attack Risk 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 Space Shuttle: NASA Should Implement Independent Oversight of Software Development (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]

Herkert H L 2015 Toward an Unseen Shore: Imaginative Thinking in Childhood Grief Doctoral dissertation (Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute)

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]

Crow K 2001 11,500 Sq. Ft., Avail. Jan. 1, (After the Inauguration) New York Times 144

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