How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Polymer Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 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

Triendl, R. Nature 2002, 418, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alabugin, I.; Mohamed, R. K. Science 2014, 344, 45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Inaba, M.; Yamanaka, H.; Kondo, S. Science 2012, 335, 677.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gasparini, F.; Caicci, F.; Rigon, F.; Zaniolo, G.; Manni, L. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6460.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Breitmaier, E. Vom NMR-Spektrum zur Strukturformel organischer Verbindungen; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2005.

An edited book

Georges Lemaître: Life, Science and Legacy; Holder, R. D.; Mitton, S., Eds.; Astrophysics and Space Science Library; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 395.

A chapter in an edited book

Díaz, I.; Touriño, J.; Doallo, R. In Managing Next Generation Networks and Services: 10th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium, APNOMS 2007, Sapporo, Japan, October 10-12, 2007. Proceedings; Ata, S.; Hong, C. S., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; pp 41.

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 Journal of Applied Polymer Science.

Blog post

Andrews, R. The Paris Climate Change Agreement Won’t Keep Warming Below 2 Degrees. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/paris-climate-change-agreement-keep-warming-below-2-degrees/ (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

Government Accountability Office Evaluation of DOD Comments Re: DOD Instruction 5000.5X, Standard Instruction Set Architectures for Embedded Computers; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schlumbrecht, C. E. Do Negative Experiences Influence Substance Use in Adolescent Males and Females? Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 2015.

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

Pilon, M. Seau Brain Tissue Is Donated to National Institute for Study. New York Times 2012, B14.

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	Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Polym. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0021-8995
ISSN (online)	1097-4628
Scope	General Chemistry Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics Surfaces, Coatings and Films