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

Stevenson DJ (2008) A planetary perspective on the deep Earth. Nature 451:261–265

A journal article with 2 authors

Sloan PA, Palmer RE (2005) Two-electron dissociation of single molecules by atomic manipulation at room temperature. Nature 434:367–371

A journal article with 3 authors

Hernández JV, Kay ER, Leigh DA (2004) A reversible synthetic rotary molecular motor. Science 306:1532–1537

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nanork P, Paar J, Chapman NC, et al (2005) Entomology: Asian honeybees parasitize the future dead. Nature 437:829

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonneau D, Fatu A, Souchet D (2014) Thermo-Hydrodynamic Lubrication in Hydrodynamic Bearings. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

van der Ark LA, Bolt DM, Wang W-C, et al (2015) Quantitative Psychology Research: The 79th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Madison, Wisconsin, 2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Simpson GA, Berlet GC (2014) Bunions in Athletes. In: Philbin TM (ed) Sports Injuries of the Foot: Evolving Diagnosis and Treatment. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 35–48

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 (2013) Ants Are Capable of Changing Their Priorities. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ants-are-capable-changing-their-priorities/. 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 (1994) Post-FTS 2000 Strategy. 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

Ma B (2012) Improving the performance of hyperspectral target detection. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Vecsey G (2011) France Loses to the U.S., With Typical Elegance. New York Times B15

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

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