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

[1]

Overbaugh J. 24/7 isn’t the only way: A healthy work-life balance can enhance research. Nature. 2011;477(7362):27–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Friend SH, Schadt EE. Translational genomics. Clues from the resilient. Science. 2014;344(6187):970–972.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lund DC, Lynch-Stieglitz J, Curry WB. Gulf Stream density structure and transport during the past millennium. Nature. 2006;444(7119):601–604.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Nakatsuji S, Nambu Y, Tonomura H, et al. Spin disorder on a triangular lattice. Science. 2005;309(5741):1697–1700.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Butler KC. Multinational Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Holznagel B. Strategies for Rural Broadband: An economic and legal feasibility analysis. Picot A, Deckers S, Grove N, et al., editors. Wiesbaden: Gabler; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Azar Y, Gilon O. Buffer Management for Packets with Processing Times. In: Bansal N, Finocchi I, editors. Algorithms - ESA 2015: 23rd Annual European Symposium, Patras, Greece, September 14-16, 2015, Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 47–58.

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

[1]

Fang J. Chameleon Tongues Are 400 Times Stickier Than Ours [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chameleon-tongues-are-so-sticky/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Federal Aviation Administration: Stronger Architecture Program Needed to Guide Systems Modernization Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005. Report No.: GAO-05-266. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Evans MD. A Correlational Analysis of Teacher Observation Scores and Student Achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2014.

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

[1]

Williams J. An Observer Inside the Terrifying World of Jihad. New York Times. 2017 Jun 11;C5.

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