How to format your references using the Biopolymers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biopolymers. 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	Download the output style file
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

de Vries, S. Nature 2015, 522, 424–425.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gómez, F. J.; Waymouth, R. M. Science 2002, 295, 635–636.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burlaga, L. F.; Ness, N. F.; Stone, E. C. Science 2013, 341, 147–150.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Okada, T.; Iitaka, T.; Yagi, T.; Aoki, K. Sci Rep 2014, 4, 5778.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moeller, R. IT Audit, Control, and Security; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

Jevtić, M. Taylor Coefficients and Coefficient Multipliers of Hardy and Bergman-Type Spaces; RSME Springer Series; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 2.

A chapter in an edited book

Cazaux, B.; Sacomoto, G.; Rivals, E. Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: 11th International Conference, AAIM 2016, Bergamo, Italy, July 18-20, 2016, Proceedings; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp 39–52.

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 Biopolymers.

Blog post

Andrew, E. The Recession Is The Real Reason For The U.S.’s Reduced Emissions https://www.iflscience.com/environment/recession-real-reason-reduced-emissions/ (accessed Oct 30, 2018).

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

Government Accountability Office. Telecommunications Security and Privacy; 122613; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ng, A. Exploring the perceptions of health care leaders: Colorectal cancer screening barriers among Chinese Canadian women. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2012.

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

Williams, J. New York Times. August 13, 2017, p C6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Biopolymers
Abbreviation	Biopolymers
ISSN (print)	0006-3525
ISSN (online)	1097-0282
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Organic Chemistry Biomaterials General Medicine