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

Sarewitz D (2012) Beware the creeping cracks of bias. Nature 485:149

A journal article with 2 authors

Ricklefs RE, Outlaw DC (2010) A molecular clock for malaria parasites. Science 329:226–229

A journal article with 3 authors

Osawa M, Anderson DE, Erickson HP (2008) Reconstitution of contractile FtsZ rings in liposomes. Science 320:792–794

A journal article with 5 or more authors

He G, Luo W, Li P, et al (2010) Gamma-secretase activating protein is a therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease. Nature 467:95–98

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shore SN (2005) The Tapestry of Modern Astrophysics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Zeng Q-A (2016) Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications: Proceedings of WCNA 2014, 1st ed. 2016. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Visone T (2016) Cosmopolitanism and Europe: An Original Encounter in the Thirties (1929–1939). In: Papastephanou M (ed) Cosmopolitanism: Educational, Philosophical and Historical Perspectives. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 65–76

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

Andrew E (2015) LightSail’s Solar Sail Has Been Deployed. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-sail-lightsail-has-been-deployed/. 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 (2009) NASA: Projects Need More Disciplined Oversight and Management to Address Key Challenges. 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

Sheldon A (2010) The impact of power restoration and narcissism on aggression. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Qiu L (2017) On Infrastructure, Claims That Don’t Quite Get Off the Ground. New York Times A13

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