How to format your references using the European Polymer Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Polymer Journal. 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]

P.D. Moore, A never-ending story, Nature 409 (2001) 565.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Allen, H. Westerblad, Physiology. Lactic acid--the latest performance-enhancing drug, Science 305 (2004) 1112–1113.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Mori, R.D. Vale, M. Tomishige, How kinesin waits between steps, Nature 450 (2007) 750–754.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.K. Fogg, C. Sibon, C. Miled, S. Jung, P. Aucouturier, D.R. Littman, A. Cumano, F. Geissmann, A clonogenic bone marrow progenitor specific for macrophages and dendritic cells, Science 311 (2006) 83–87.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Ramamoorti, D.E. Morrison III, J.W. Koletar, K.R. Pope, A.B.C.’s of Behavioral Forensics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

D. Jin, S. Lin, eds., Advances in Future Computer and Control Systems: Volume 2, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Thovex, F. Trichet, Automatic Building of Socio-semantic Networks for Requirements Analysis, in: R. Buchmann, C.V. Kifor, J. Yu (Eds.), Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: 7th International Conference, KSEM 2014, Sibiu, Romania, October 16-18, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 37–48.

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 European Polymer Journal.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, This Is What Supercontinent Pangea Looks Like Mapped With Modern Borders, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-pangea-could-have-looked-today/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Women and Minority Aerospace Industry Profile, 1979-1986, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Zohourian, Supply Chain Decision Making Under Demand Uncertainty and the Use of Control Systems: A Correlational Study, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2015.

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]

M. Andrews, Venus Williams Faces Wrongful-Death Suit, New York Times (2017) D6.

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	European Polymer Journal
Abbreviation	Eur. Polym. J.
ISSN (print)	0014-3057
Scope	Organic Chemistry Polymers and Plastics General Physics and Astronomy