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

Friedlander, M. Nature 2012, 483, 400.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhattacharya, K.; James, R. D. Science 2005, 307, 53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Back, J. M.; McCue, S. W.; Moroney, T. J. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 7066.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Frigaard, N.-U.; Martinez, A.; Mincer, T. J.; DeLong, E. F. Nature 2006, 439, 847.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gramß, T.; Bornholdt, S.; Groß, M.; Mitchell, M.; Pellizzari, T. Non-Standard Computation; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

Encyclopedia of Astrobiology; Gargaud, M.; Amils, R.; Quintanilla, J. C.; Cleaves, H. J. (jim); Irvine, W. M.; Pinti, D. L.; Viso, M., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Ameratunga, J.; Sivakugan, N.; Das, B. M. In Correlations of Soil and Rock Properties in Geotechnical Engineering; Sivakugan, N.; Das, B. M., Eds.; Developments in Geotechnical Engineering; Springer India: New Delhi, 2016; pp 115.

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. Why You Should Pee In The Shower, According To Mathematics. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-you-should-pee-as-you-shower-according-to-mathematics/ (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 From School to Work; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Onal, B. RFID feasibility study for check-out stations at supermarkets. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University: Edwardsville, IL, 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

Kelly, M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate’s Record; The Matter of Trust: Clinton’s Big Burden. New York Times 1992, 124.

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

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