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 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]

Madden J D 2006 Materials science. Artificial muscle begins to breathe Science 311 1559–60

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Girguis P R and Lee R W 2006 Thermal preference and tolerance of alvinellids Science 312 231

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kulmala M, Pirjola L and Makela J M 2000 Stable sulphate clusters as a source of new atmospheric particles Nature 404 66–9

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Colomer-de-Simón P, Serrano M Á, Beiró M G, Alvarez-Hamelin J I and Boguñá M 2013 Deciphering the global organization of clustering in real complex networks Sci. Rep. 3 2517

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sundar V 2015 Ocean Wave Mechanics (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

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Ng C-H C, Fox R and Nakano M 2016 Reforming Learning and Teaching in Asia-Pacific Universities: Influences of Globalised Processes in Japan, Hong Kong and Australia vol 33 (Singapore: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

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Saran A, Serviere L, Kalliny M and Minor M S 2015 Desire for Visual Aesthetics (DVA) in the Store Environment: Concept and Measurement Revolution in Marketing: Market Driving Changes: Proceedings of the 2006 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference ed H E Spotts (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 4–4

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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Andrew E 2015 Patterns Are Math We Love To Look At 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 1978 Shifting the Government’s Automatic Data Processing Requirements to the Private Sector: Further Study and Better Guidance Needed (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]

Tajer S A 2010 Topics in MIMO networks Doctoral dissertation (New York, NY: Columbia 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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Sisario B 2017 After 15 Years, New York Is Back as Grammy Host New York Times B2

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