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]

Rodbell D T 2012 Climate change. Marching in near lock-step Science 335 548–9

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sundquist W I and Ullman K S 2015 CELL BIOLOGY. An ESCRT to seal the envelope Science 348 1314–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gros J, Serralbo O and Marcelle C 2009 WNT11 acts as a directional cue to organize the elongation of early muscle fibres Nature 457 589–93

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Mandal L, Martinez-Agosto J A, Evans C J, Hartenstein V and Banerjee U 2007 A Hedgehog- and Antennapedia-dependent niche maintains Drosophila haematopoietic precursors Nature 446 320–4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Funk W, Dammann V, Donnevert G, Ianelli S, Ianelli E and Gray A 2006 Quality Assurance in Analytical Chemistry (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Wu G, Coupé P, Zhan Y, Munsell B and Rueckert D 2015 Patch-Based Techniques in Medical Imaging: First International Workshop, Patch-MI 2015, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2015, Munich, Germany, October 9, 2015, Revised Selected Papers vol 9467 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rezaizadeh H and Olson E 2016 Inflammatory Bowel Disease Pocket Handbook of GI Pharmacotherapeutics Clinical Gastroenterology ed G Y Wu (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 45–63

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]

Carpineti A 2016 Scientists Hone In On How White Dwarfs Go Supernova 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 2008 Intellectual Property: Federal Enforcement Has Generally Increased, but Assessing Performance Could Strengthen Law Enforcement Efforts (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]

Robles S 2013 Transient over-voltages generated by solar photovoltaic inverters 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]

Scheiber N 2016 Fight for $15 Widens Focus New York Times B1

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