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

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

Pennisi E (2002) Primate evolution. Gene activity clocks brain’s fast evolution. Science 296:233–235

A journal article with 2 authors

Gui C, Wang J (2014) Silicon-organic hybrid slot waveguide based three-input multicasted optical hexadecimal addition/subtraction. Sci Rep 4:7491

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilkinson JJ, Simmons SF, Stoffell B (2013) How metalliferous brines line Mexican epithermal veins with silver. Sci Rep 3:2057

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Thomas PC, Veverka J, Robinson MS, Murchie S (2001) Shoemaker crater as the source of most ejecta blocks on the asteroid 433 Eros. Nature 413:394–396

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prazeres DMF (2011) Plasmid Biopharmaceuticals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Chen K, Ravindran A (2016) Forging Connections between Computational Mathematics and Computational Geometry: Papers from the 3rd International Conference on Computational Mathematics and Computational Geometry. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Pawlak M (2016) Investigating Language Learning Motivation from an Ideal Language-Self Perspective: The Case of English Majors in Poland. In: Gałajda D, Zakrajewski P, Pawlak M (eds) Researching Second Language Learning and Teaching from a Psycholinguistic Perspective: Studies in Honour of Danuta Gabryś-Barker. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 53–69

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 Polymer Research.

Blog post

Luntz S (2017) Alien-Looking Insect Has Its Own Order. In: IFLScience. 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 (2004) Information Technology: Foundational Steps Being Taken to Make Needed FBI Systems Modernization Management Improvements. 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

Brooks CE (2010) Action research: Interventions for helping leaders use groups to affect conflict between workforce generations. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Wagner J (2017) Dodgers’ Turner Delivers Decisive Final Blow in a Battle of Bullpens. New York Times D4

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 Polymer Research
Abbreviation	J. Polym. Res.
ISSN (print)	1022-9760
ISSN (online)	1572-8935
Scope	Organic Chemistry Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics