How to format your references using the Designed Monomers and Polymers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Designed Monomers and 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

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Smith MS. Change the approach to sustainable development. Nature. 2012;483(7390):375.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zhang W, Luck SJ. Discrete fixed-resolution representations in visual working memory. Nature. 2008;453(7192):233–235.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Collins FS, Gray GM, Bucher JR. Toxicology. Transforming environmental health protection. Science. 2008;319(5865):906–907.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Wang Z, Zhang Y, Zhang J, et al. Exploring natural silk protein sericin for regenerative medicine: an injectable, photoluminescent, cell-adhesive 3D hydrogel. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7064.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Langlois P. Simulation of Complex Systems in GIS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

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Alaoui-Jamali M, editor. Alternative and Complementary Therapies for Cancer: Integrative Approaches and Discovery of Conventional Drugs. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

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Gosal SK, Kalia A, Varma A. Piriformospora indica: Perspectives and Retrospectives. In: Varma A, Kost G, Oelmüller R, editors. Piriformospora indica: Sebacinales and Their Biotechnological Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 53–77.

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 Designed Monomers and Polymers.

Blog post

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Andrew E. Inoculating Against Science Denial [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/inoculating-against-science-denial/.

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. Critical Infrastructure Protection: National Plan for Information Systems Protection. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000. Report No.: AIMD-00-90R. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Luo SX. Theoretical models of olfactory discrimination in Drosophila [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2009.

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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Craig S, Chen DW. Trump in New York: Deep Roots, but Little Sway. New York Times. 2016 Feb 23;A1.

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	Designed Monomers and Polymers
Abbreviation	Des. Monomers Polym.
ISSN (online)	1568-5551
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics