How to format your references using the Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition citation style

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

[1]

Hanash S. Disease proteomics. Nature. 2003;422(6928):226–232.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Simons K, Mattaj IW. Retrospective. Lennart Philipson (1929-2011). Science. 2011;333(6043):711.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jiang D, Zhao L, Clapham DE. Genome-wide RNAi screen identifies Letm1 as a mitochondrial Ca2+/H+ antiporter. Science. 2009;326(5949):144–147.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Hole JA, Catchings RD, St Clair KC, et al. Steep-dip seismic imaging of the shallow San Andreas fault near Parkfield. Science. 2001;294(5546):1513–1515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Aubrey SB. The Profitable Hobby Farm. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Komornik V. Fourier Series in Control Theory. Loreti P, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Alam MD, Gühl UF. Templates. In: Gühl UF, editor. Project-Management in Practice: A Guideline and Toolbox for Successful Projects. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 127–152.

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 Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. Water Droplets Pop Off Gecko Skin Like Popcorn. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Weather Forecasting: Cost Growth and Delays in Billion-Dollar Weather Service Modernization. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991. Report No.: IMTEC-92-12FS. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Azios M. The College Experience of Stuttering: An Ethnographic Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

[1]

Schwartz J. Debate on Pulling Back From Paris Climate Deal Could Turn on a Single Phrase. New York Times. 2017 May 2;A17.

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	Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition
Abbreviation	J. Biomater. Sci. Polym. Ed.
ISSN (print)	0920-5063
ISSN (online)	1568-5624
Scope	Biophysics Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials