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]

M. Moses, Being human: engineering: worldwide ebb, Nature 457 (2009) 660–661.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W. Coburn, S.E. Boggs, Polarization of the prompt gamma-ray emission from the gamma-ray burst of 6 December 2002, Nature 423 (2003) 415–417.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.W.T. Talkington, G. Siuzdak, J.R. Williamson, An assembly landscape for the 30S ribosomal subunit, Nature 438 (2005) 628–632.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Trampert, F. Deschamps, J. Resovsky, D. Yuen, Probabilistic tomography maps chemical heterogeneities throughout the lower mantle, Science 306 (2004) 853–856.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H.D. Vinod, D.P. Reagle, Preparing for the Worst: Incorporating Downside Risk in Stock Market Investments, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

S. Fdida, K. Sugiura, eds., Sustainable Internet: Third Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2007, Phuket, Thailand, November 27-29, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Chase, O.P. Singh, Bioresources of Nagaland: A Case of Wild Edible Fruits in Khonoma Village Forest, in: J. Purkayastha (Ed.), Bioprospecting of Indigenous Bioresources of North-East India, Springer, Singapore, 2016: pp. 45–60.

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]

A. Carpineti, Stephen Hawking Says We Should Be “Wary” About Contacting Aliens, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/stephen-hawking-says-we-should-be-wary-about-contacting-aliens/ (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, Corrective Actions Taken or in Process To Reduce Job Corps’ Vulnerability to Improper Use of Contracting Authority, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Motala, Siblings caring for elderly parents with dementia, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

J. Wagner, Yankees Ride Out Chapman’s Latest Turbulence and Rebuff the Mets Again, New York Times (2017) B11.

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