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

Spiegel FW (2012) Evolution. Contemplating the first Plantae. Science 335:809–810

A journal article with 2 authors

Henneman ML, Memmott J (2001) Infiltration of a Hawaiian community by introduced biological control agents. Science 293:1314–1316

A journal article with 3 authors

Müller H, Peters A, Chu S (2010) A precision measurement of the gravitational redshift by the interference of matter waves. Nature 463:926–929

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fang C, Smith P, Moncrieff JB, Smith JU (2005) Similar response of labile and resistant soil organic matter pools to changes in temperature. Nature 433:57–59

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Negre E (2015) Information and Recommender Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lieb EH (2005) The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars: Selecta of Elliott H. Lieb, Fourth Edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kätsch C (2008) Assessing Landscape Attributes. In: Gadow K von, Pukkala T (eds) Designing Green Landscapes. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 79–108

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

Carpineti A (2016) Spotting The Solos In The Cosmic Choir Of Black Holes. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spotting-the-solos-in-the-cosmic-choir-of-black-holes/. 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 (2000) Small Business Administration: Status of Mandated Planning for Loan Monitoring System. 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

Kolaski GW (2010) Cultural awareness and the U.S. military advisor in the Arab Middle East: A phenomenological study. 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

Leland J (2017) Muslim Lives in the City. New York Times MB7

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