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

Wain-Hobson, S. (2013). H5N1 viral-engineering dangers will not go away. Nature, 495(7442), 411.

A journal article with 2 authors

Surani, A., & Tischler, J. (2012). Stem cells: a sporadic super state. Nature, 487(7405), 43–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vance, D., Teagle, D. A. H., & Foster, G. L. (2009). Variable Quaternary chemical weathering fluxes and imbalances in marine geochemical budgets. Nature, 458(7237), 493–496.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mehlmann, L. M., Saeki, Y., Tanaka, S., Brennan, T. J., Evsikov, A. V., Pendola, F. L., Knowles, B. B., Eppig, J. J., & Jaffe, L. A. (2004). The Gs-linked receptor GPR3 maintains meiotic arrest in mammalian oocytes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5703), 1947–1950.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jarry, P., & Beneat, J. (2007). Advanced Design Techniques and Realizations of Microwave and RF Filters. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Huang, D.-S., Han, K., & Gromiha, M. (Eds.). (2014). Intelligent Computing in Bioinformatics: 10th International Conference, ICIC 2014, Taiyuan, China, August 3-6, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8590). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Golovin, A. A. (2010). Interfacial Phenomena in Materials Science. In P. Colinet & A. Nepomnyashchy (Eds.), Pattern Formation at Interfaces (pp. 219–253). 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. (2014, March 24). New Cancer Treatment Causes Cells To Explode. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-cancer-treatment-causes-cells-explode/

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. (1994). Federal Research: Interim Report on the Pilot Technology Access Program (RCED-94-75). 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

Bain Butler, D. (2010). How L2 legal writers use strategies for scholarly writing: A mixed methods study [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

Feeney, K. (2008, July 6). Grown in New Jersey (Mostly). New York Times, NJ8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wain-Hobson, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Surani & Tischler, 2012; Wain-Hobson, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Surani & Tischler, 2012)
Three authors: (Vance et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Mehlmann et al., 2004)

About the journal

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