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]

C. Willyard, Thrombosis: Balancing act, Nature 515 (2014) S168-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Burgisser, G.W. Bergantz, A rapid mechanism to remobilize and homogenize highly crystalline magma bodies, Nature 471 (2011) 212–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.-H. Chen, W.-R. Chen, F. Mallamace, The glass-to-glass transition and its end point in a copolymer micellar system, Science 300 (2003) 619–622.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Ono, H. Terabe, H. Hori, M. Sasaki, Insect signalling: components of giant hornet alarm pheromone, Nature 424 (2003) 637–638.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Grous, Fracture Mechanics 3, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

P. Koopman, R. Plasmeijer, D. Swierstra, eds., Advanced Functional Programming: 6th International School, AFP 2008, Heijen, The Netherlands, May 2008, Revised Lectures, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Wang, X. Ding, R.H. Deng, F. Bao, Private Information Retrieval Using Trusted Hardware, in: D. Gollmann, J. Meier, A. Sabelfeld (Eds.), Computer Security – ESORICS 2006: 11th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Hamburg, Germany, September 18-20, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 49–64.

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, Selective Killing Can Affect Elephants for Decades, IFLScience (2013).

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, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Improved Stategic and Acquisition Planning Can Help Address Emerging Challenges, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N. Grayson, Development of a preliminary scale of counterproductive experiences in supervision: Attitudes of clinical psychology doctoral students, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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]

G. Vecsey, Far From Perfection, but Closer to Vindication, New York Times (2011) SP3.

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