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

Clayton RN (2011) Planetary Science. The Earth and the Sun. Science 332:1509–1510

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang Z-F, Zhou J-H (2013) Can we identify source lithology of basalt? Sci Rep 3:1856

A journal article with 3 authors

Quattrociocchi W, Caldarelli G, Scala A (2014) Opinion dynamics on interacting networks: media competition and social influence. Sci Rep 4:4938

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Koch GW, Sillett SC, Jennings GM, Davis SD (2004) The limits to tree height. Nature 428:851–854

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reed SM, Hrci (2017) The HRCI Official Body of Knowledge. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Grabis J, Kirikova M, Zdravkovic J, Stirna J (2013) The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: 6th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, PoEM 2013, Riga, Latvia, November 6-7, 2013, Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Selvan ME, Keffer DJ (2010) Molecular-Level Modeling of the Structure and Proton Transport within the Membrane Electrode Assembly of Hydrogen Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells. In: Balbuena PB, Subramanian VR (eds) Theory and Experiment in Electrocatalysis. Springer, New York, NY, pp 133–202

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

Davis J (2015) Iron Age Huts Could Give Clue To How The Earth’s Magnetic Poles Switch. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/iron-age-huts-could-give-clue-how-earths-magnetic-poles-switch/. 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 (1983) Federal Agencies Could Save Time and Money With Better Computer Software Alternatives. 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

Griffith A (2017) The Curious Case of Implementation: Enactment of the California Community College Student Equity Initiative. 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

Saulny S (2004) Club’s Owner And 2 Others Arrested in Raid. New York Times B1

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

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