How to format your references using the Polymer Journal citation style

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

Heckel, D. G. Ecology. Insecticide resistance after Silent spring. Science 337, 1612–1614 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

Hulleman, C. S. & Harackiewicz, J. M. Promoting interest and performance in high school science classes. Science 326, 1410–1412 (2009).

A journal article with 3 authors

Howat, I. M., Joughin, I. & Scambos, T. A. Rapid changes in ice discharge from Greenland outlet glaciers. Science 315, 1559–1561 (2007).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Leibundgut, M., Jenni, S., Frick, C. & Ban, N. Structural basis for substrate delivery by acyl carrier protein in the yeast fatty acid synthase. Science 316, 288–290 (2007).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Casadella, V., Liu, Z. & Uzunidis, D. Innovation Capabilities and Economic Development in Open Economies. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015).

An edited book

Algorithms – ESA 2012: 20th Annual European Symposium, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 10-12, 2012. Proceedings. 7501, (Springer, 2012).

A chapter in an edited book

Privat, M. & Warner, R. in Pro Core Data for iOS: Data Access and Persistence Engine for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (ed. Warner, R.) 111–132 (Apress, 2011).

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 Polymer Journal.

Blog post

Taub, B. We Have 100 Times More “Love Hormone” In Our Blood Than We Thought. IFLScience (2016). at <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/we-have-100-times-more-love-hormone-blood-than-thought/>

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. FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB. (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Crowley, K. M. Dynamics of Creativity: A Study of Early Drug Discovery Scientists’ Experience of Creativity. (2019).

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

Grippe, J. A Goal-Oriented Mother’s 2 Forbidden Words: ‘I Can’t’. New York Times A18 (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Polymer Journal
Abbreviation	Polym. J.
ISSN (online)	1349-0540
Scope	Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics