How to format your references using the Journal of Polymers and the Environment citation style

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

Buckingham S (2003) Genomic mergers. Nature 425:213

A journal article with 2 authors

Magurran AE, Henderson PA (2003) Explaining the excess of rare species in natural species abundance distributions. Nature 422:714–716

A journal article with 3 authors

Meierbachtol T, Harper J, Humphrey N (2013) Basal drainage system response to increasing surface melt on the Greenland ice sheet. Science 341:777–779

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Burns SJ, Fleitmann D, Matter A, et al (2003) Indian Ocean climate and an absolute chronology over Dansgaard/Oeschger events 9 to 13. Science 301:1365–1367

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kääriäinen T, Cameron D, Kääriäinen M-L, Sherman A (2013) Atomic Layer Deposition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Linte CA, Chen ECS, Berger M-O, et al (2013) Augmented Environments for Computer-Assisted Interventions: 7th International Workshop, AE-CAI 2012, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2012, Nice, France, October 5, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bond JS, Keiffer TR, Sun Q (2011) Pericellular Proteolysis. In: Parks WC, Mecham RP (eds) Extracellular Matrix Degradation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 75–94

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 Polymers and the Environment.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Elon Musk And Stephen Hawking Sign Open Letter In Hopes Of Preventing Robot Uprising. 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 (1993) Army Reserve Officer Education. 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

Berkowitz AE (2015) Finding a Place for “Cacega Ayuwipi” within the Structure of American Indian Music and Dance Traditions. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Mueller B (2015) Bible Study Group Devolved Into a Lethal Sect. New York Times A1

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 Polymers and the Environment
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Polym. Degrad.
ISSN (print)	1566-2543
ISSN (online)	1572-8900
Scope	Environmental Engineering Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics