How to format your references using the Polymer Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Polymer Reviews. 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	Download the output style file
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

(1)

Nelson, S. Big Data: The Harvard Computers. Nature 2008, 455 (7209), 36–37.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Lee, E.-J.; Groisman, E. A. Control of a Salmonella Virulence Locus by an ATP-Sensing Leader Messenger RNA. Nature 2012, 486 (7402), 271–275.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1)

Scott, B. A.; Avidan, M. S.; Crowder, C. M. Regulation of Hypoxic Death in C. Elegans by the Insulin/IGF Receptor Homolog DAF-2. Science 2002, 296 (5577), 2388–2391.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Dawson, M. R.; Duda, D. G.; Fukumura, D.; Jain, R. K. VEGFR1-Activity-Independent Metastasis Formation. Nature 2009, 461 (7262), E4; discussion E5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Bhaduri, S.; Mukesh, D. Homogeneous Catalysis; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

(1)

Social Computing, Behavioral - Cultural Modeling and Prediction: 5th International Conference, SBP 2012, College Park, MD, USA, April 3-5, 2012. Proceedings; Yang, S. J., Greenberg, A. M., Endsley, M., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 7227.

A chapter in an edited book

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Sela, Y.; Pham, M. N.; Shackelford, T. K. Do Men and Women Perform Oral Sex as Mate Retention Behavior? In The Evolution of Sexuality; Shackelford, T. K., Hansen, R. D., Eds.; Evolutionary Psychology; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp 69–79.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

(1)

Andrew, E. Hybrid-Electric Plane Successfully Tested In The UK https://www.iflscience.com/technology/hybrid-electric-plane-successfully-tested-uk/ (accessed Oct 30, 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

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Government Accountability Office. Revisions Needed in Financial Management Policies of the Federal Government’s Automatic Data Processing Fund; B-115369; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Waterman, M. A. Housing for the Homeless Mentally Ill Population: A Grant Writing Project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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

(1)

Dinardo, K. Tom Allen on His 32-Country Solo Bike Ride and the Video He Made About It. New York Times. February 23, 2014, p TR3.

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 Reviews
Abbreviation	Polym. Rev. (Phila. Pa)
ISSN (print)	1558-3724
ISSN (online)	1558-3716
Scope	General Chemistry Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Biomedical Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics