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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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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Chyba C F 2010 Atmospheric science. Countering the early faint Sun Science 328 1238–9

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Robinson C M and Pfeiffer J K 2014 Virology. Leaping the norovirus hurdle Science 346 700–1

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Orlitsky A, Santhanam N P and Zhang J 2003 Always Good Turing: asymptotically optimal probability estimation Science 302 427–31

A journal article with 99 or more authors

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Roper C, Pearce R, Nair S, Sharp B, Nosten F and Anderson T 2004 Intercontinental spread of pyrimethamine-resistant malaria Science 305 1124

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Prazeres D M F 2011 Plasmid Biopharmaceuticals (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Li F, Shim K, Zheng K and Liu G 2016 Web Technologies and Applications: 18th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2016, Suzhou, China, September 23-25, 2016. Proceedings, Part I vol 9931 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

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Schillinger N 2012 Survey the People Structures on the Move: Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounter Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context ed A Flüchter and S Richter (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 87–103

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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Andrew D 2015 Awesome X-Ray View Of A Man Swallowing 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 1994 Quality Assurance Independence (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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Khalili A 2017 Spectrally formulated user-defined element in Abaqus for wave motion analysis and health monitoring of composite structures Doctoral dissertation (Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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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Kelly C 2007 New Libraries That Don’t Just Go by the Book New York Times WE9

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