How to format your references using the International Journal of Plastics Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Plastics Technology. 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

Chen J (2001) Materials scienceAll chopped up. Nature 410:31

A journal article with 2 authors

Moritz C, Agudo R (2013) The future of species under climate change: resilience or decline? Science 341:504–508

A journal article with 3 authors

Gizon L, Duvall TL, Schou J (2003) Wave-like properties of solar supergranulation. Nature 421:43–44

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yan S, Zhang J, Li M, et al (2014) On-chip high-throughput manipulation of particles in a dielectrophoresis-active hydrophoretic focuser. Sci Rep 4:5060

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang L, Peng M, Chang D, Xu Y (2016) Dam Failure Mechanisms and Risk Assessment. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Corcoran T, White J, Whitburn B (2015) Disability Studies: Educating for Inclusion. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Selvaggi S (2007) Insegnare e apprendere online. In: Selvaggi S, Vollono E, Sicignano G (eds) e-Learning: Nuovi strumenti per insegnare, apprendere, comunicare online. Springer, Milano, pp 55–75

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 International Journal of Plastics Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) This Technique Could Allow Us To Harvest Water From Asteroids. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/technique-could-allow-us-harvest-water-asteroids/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1973) Additional Costs Incurred in Maintaining the National Industrial Equipment Reserve (NIER). 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

Goldstein TW (2010) Writing in red: The East German Writers Union and the role of literary intellectuals in the German Democratic Republic, 1971-90. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

LISA W. FODERARO; Reporting for this article was contributed by Ford Fessenden, as well as by Kathleen McGrory in Westchester, Akhtar F, et al (2006) That Sound You Hear? The Market Coming Down to Earth. New York Times 14LI5

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	International Journal of Plastics Technology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Plast. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0972-656X
ISSN (online)	0975-072X
Scope	Polymers and Plastics