How to format your references using the Carbohydrate Polymers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Carbohydrate Polymers. 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

Bosch, X. (2000). Spain in quandary over French synchrotron. Nature, 405(6787), 604.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hector, A., & Hooper, R. (2002). Ecology. Darwin and the first ecological experiment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5555), 639–640.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mallatt, J., Chen, J., & Holland, N. D. (2003). Comment on “A new species of yunnanozoan with implications for deuterostome evolution.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5624), 1372; author reply 1372.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schilling, M. M., Oeser, J. K., Boustead, J. N., Flemming, B. P., & O’Brien, R. M. (2006). Gluconeogenesis: re-evaluating the FOXO1-PGC-1alpha connection. Nature, 443(7111), E10-1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jain, R. K., Triandis, H. C., & Weick, C. W. (2010). Managing Research, Development, and Innovation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hong, B., Meng, X., Chen, L., Winiwarter, W., & Song, W. (Eds.). (2013). Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 18th International Conference, DASFAA 2013, International Workshops: BDMA, SNSM, SeCoP, Wuhan, China, April 22-25, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 7827). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Røsæg, E. (2009). The Athens Convention on Passenger Liability and the EU. In J. Basedow, U. Magnus, & R. Wolfrum (Eds.), The Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs 2007 & 2008 (pp. 55–75). Springer.

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 Carbohydrate Polymers.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, November 16). Yes, Eastern Coyotes Are Hybrids, But The ‘Coywolf’ Is Not A Thing. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/yes-eastern-coyotes-are-hybrids-coywolf-not-thing/

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. (2016). Management Agenda for the Presidential and Congressional Transition: Promote Transparency and Open Government to Enhance Civic Engagement and Foster Innovation (D15091). 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

Ethridge, G. (2012). Determining the variables that contribute to job tenure for people with psychiatric disabilities participating in an evidenced-based supported employment program [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, June 1). Sami Blood. New York Times, C10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Bosch, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bosch, 2000; Hector & Hooper, 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hector & Hooper, 2002)
Three authors: (Mallatt et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Schilling et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Carbohydrate Polymers
Abbreviation	Carbohydr. Polym.
ISSN (print)	0144-8617
Scope	Organic Chemistry Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics