How to format your references using the International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials. 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

J. W. Perry: ‘Applied physics. Two beams squeeze feature sizes in optical lithography’, Science, 2009, 324, 892–893.

A journal article with 2 authors

T. Tyc and X. Zhang: ‘Forum Optics: Perfect lenses in focus’, Nature, 2011, 480, 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

S. T. Park, S. K. Kim and M. S. Kim: ‘Observation of conformation-specific pathways in the photodissociation of 1-iodopropane ions’, Nature, 2002, 415, 306–308.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

C. J. Grillmair, A. Burrows, D. Charbonneau, L. Armus, J. Stauffer, V. Meadows, J. van Cleve, K. von Braun and D. Levine: ‘Strong water absorption in the dayside emission spectrum of the planet HD 189733b’, Nature, 2008, 456, 767–769.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Z. Abdullaeva: ‘Nano- and Biomaterials’, 2017, Weinheim, Germany, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

S. K. Brar, G. S. Dhillon and C. R. Soccol, Eds.: ‘Biotransformation of Waste Biomass into High Value Biochemicals’, 2014, New York, NY, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

S.-I. Aiba: in Structure and Function of Mountain Ecosystems in Japan: Biodiversity and Vulnerability to Climate Change, ed. G. Kudo, Tokyo, Springer Japan, 2016, pp. 89–114.

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 Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials.

Blog post

J. Fang: Remote-Controlled Contraceptive Implant That Lasts 16 Years, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/remote-controlled-contraceptive-implant-lasts-16-years/, (accessed 30 October 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: ‘Student Testing: Issues Related to Voluntary National Mathematics and Reading Tests’, 1998, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

T. Koyanagi: ‘Design and Synthesis of Archaea-Inspired Tetraether Lipids’, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2017.

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

M. Corkery and M. W. Walsh: New York Times, 2015, A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials
Abbreviation	Int. J. Polym. Mater.
ISSN (print)	0091-4037
ISSN (online)	1563-535X
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Analytical Chemistry Polymers and Plastics

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