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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Dijkstra JM (2014) TH2 and Treg candidate genes in elephant shark. Nature 511:E7-9
A journal article with 2 authors
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Armstrong FA, Fontecilla-Camps JC (2008) Biochemistry. A natural choice for activating hydrogen. Science 321:498–499
A journal article with 3 authors
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Petersen-Mahrt SK, Harris RS, Neuberger MS (2002) AID mutates E. coli suggesting a DNA deamination mechanism for antibody diversification. Nature 418:99–103
A journal article with 5 or more authors
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van Montfort RLM, Congreve M, Tisi D, et al (2003) Oxidation state of the active-site cysteine in protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B. Nature 423:773–777

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Petrozzi S (2012) Practical Instrumental Analysis. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany
An edited book
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Priya S, Nahm S (2012) Lead-Free Piezoelectrics. Springer, New York, NY
A chapter in an edited book
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Hillairet C, Pontier M (2012) A Modelization of Public–Private Partnerships with Failure Time. In: Decreusefond L, Najim J (eds) Stochastic Analysis and Related Topics: In Honour of Ali Süleyman Üstünel, Paris, June 2010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 91–117

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
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Luntz S (2016) Weather Detected On A World With Sapphire And Ruby Clouds. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/weather-detected-on-a-world-with-sapphire-and-ruby-clouds/. 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
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Government Accountability Office (2009) Higher Education: Factors Lenders Consider in Making Lending Decisions for Private Education Loans. 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
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Nesbit PR (2014) Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles and Structure from Motion: A fresh approach to photogrammetry. 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
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Isaac M (2017) SoftBank of Japan Is Said to Be Weighing an Investment in Uber. New York Times B4

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 titleJournal of Polymer Research
AbbreviationJ. Polym. Res.
ISSN (print)1022-9760
ISSN (online)1572-8935
ScopeOrganic Chemistry
Materials Chemistry
Polymers and Plastics

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