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]

Draaisma D. The tracks of thought. Nature. 2001;414:153.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wignall AE, Herberstein ME. Male courtship vibrations delay predatory behaviour in female spiders. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3557.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Naranjo B, Gimzewski JK, Putterman S. Observation of nuclear fusion driven by a pyroelectric crystal. Nature. 2005;434:1115–1117.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

DiVincenzo DP, Bacon D, Kempe J, et al. Universal quantum computation with the exchange interaction. Nature. 2000;408:339–342.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nash CE. The History of Aquaculture. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Bjørner N, Voronkov A, editors. Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning: 18th International Conference, LPAR-18, Mérida, Venezuela, March 11-15, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bauer AL, Rohlf T. Investigating the Role of Cross-Talk Between Chemical and Stromal Factors in Endothelial Cell Phenotype Determination. In: Jackson TL, editor. Modeling Tumor Vasculature: Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Level Aspects and Implications. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. p. 79–101.

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]

Andrew D. Japan’s Latest Tsunami Reaction Shows Lessons Learned From Previous Disasters. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. ADP Systems: Better Control Over States’ Medicaid Systems Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989. Report No.: IMTEC-89-19. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sylvain O. Domesticating “the Great, Throbbing, Common Pulse of America”: A Study of the Ideological Origins of the Radio Act of 1927 [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2010.

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]

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times. 2017 Oct 6;C25.

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