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 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

[1]

Myneni S C B 2002 Formation of stable chlorinated hydrocarbons in weathering plant material Science 295 1039–41

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Liu T L and Kim C-J C J 2014 Repellent surfaces. Turning a surface superrepellent even to completely wetting liquids Science 346 1096–100

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hauser M D, Chomsky N and Fitch W T 2002 The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? Science 298 1569–79

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Sumbre G, Fiorito G, Flash T and Hochner B 2005 Neurobiology: motor control of flexible octopus arms Nature 433 595–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gray D R J M and Al-Ani D M Z 2011 Temporomandibular Disorders (West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.)

An edited book

[1]

Pfander G E 2015 Sampling Theory, a Renaissance: Compressive Sensing and Other Developments (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Melançon G and Rozenblat C 2013 Structural Analysis of Networks Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks ed C Rozenblat and G Melançon (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 69–80

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]

Davis J 2015 Scientists Watch As Wasps Diverge To Become Separate Species 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 1993 FAA Budget: Important Challenges Affecting Aviation Safety, Capacity, and Efficiency (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]

Chin S-H 2009 A performer’s guide to Howard Hanson’s “Four Poems (Poèmes érotiques)”, Opus 9 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]

Pilon M 2012 Jewish School Falls in Final New York Times SP2

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