How to format your references using the eXPRESS Polymer Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for eXPRESS Polymer Letters. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Dye, J. L.: Chemistry. Electrons as anions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301, 607–608 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Yang, W. Y.; Gruebele, M.: Folding at the speed limit. Nature, 423, 193–197 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Clutton-Brock, T. H.; Coulson, T.; Milner, J. M.: Red deer stocks in the Highlands of Scotland. Nature, 429, 261–262 (2004).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Bank, S.; Jana, P.; Maiti, S.; Guha, S.; Sinha, A. K.: Dermcidin isoform-2 induced nullification of the effect of acetyl salicylic acid in platelet aggregation in acute myocardial infarction. Scientific reports, 4, 5804 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Corrigan, P. W.; Roe, D.; Tsang, H. W. H.: Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; ISBN 9780470977507.

An edited book

[1]

Proceedings of the 21st International Meshing Roundtable; Jiao, X., Weill, J.-C., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; ISBN 9783642335723.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Liemohn, M. W.; Ma, Y.; Frahm, R. A.; Fang, X.; Kozyra, J. U.; Nagy, A. F.; Winningham, J. D.; Sharber, J. R.; Barabash, S.; Lundin, R.: Mars Global MHD Predictions of Magnetic Connectivity between the Dayside ionosphere and the Magnetospheric Flanks. In The Mars Plasma Environment; Russell, C. T., Ed.; Springer: New York, NY, (2007); pp. 63–76 ISBN 9780387709413.

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 eXPRESS Polymer Letters.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti, A.: There Is A Man-Made Barrier Surrounding Our Planet Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/there-is-a-man-made-barrier-surrounding-our-planet/ (accessed on Oct 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: Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Severity of Problem Calls for Strong Leadership and Effective Partnerships; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

van der Veen, A. M.: Domestic Politics, International Inaction: The United States and Human Rights Treaties. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC.

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]

Brantley, B.: Some Friends Just Aren’t Huggers. New York Times (2017), 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	eXPRESS Polymer Letters
ISSN (print)	1778-618X
Scope