How to format your references using the Polymer Testing citation style

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

G.T. McQuate, Green light synergistally enhances male sweetpotato weevil response to sex pheromone, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4499.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Marquis, P. Tans, Climate change. Carbon crucible, Science 320 (2008) 460–461.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Á.M. Kovács, E. Téglás, A.D. Endress, The social sense: susceptibility to others’ beliefs in human infants and adults, Science 330 (2010) 1830–1834.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N.J. Savill, S.G. St Rose, M.J. Keeling, M.E.J. Woolhouse, Silent spread of H5N1 in vaccinated poultry, Nature 442 (2006) 757.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B.I. Sandén, Design of Multithreaded Software, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

O. Goldreich, ed., Property Testing: Current Research and Surveys, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Pánek, V. Kapustová, Long-Term Geomorphological History of the Czech Republic, in: T. Pánek, J. Hradecký (Eds.), Landscapes and Landforms of the Czech Republic, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 29–39.

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 Testing.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Nearby Star Escapes Black Hole, But Loses Jupiter-Sized Chunk, IFLScience (2014).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Computer Systems: Types and Sources of Department of State Lookout Records, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Bockler, Legal advocacy program for low-income children with disabilities: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

M. Kelly, The First Couple: A Union of Mind and Ambition, New York Times (1993) A13.

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	Polymer Testing
Abbreviation	Polym. Test.
ISSN (print)	0142-9418
Scope	Organic Chemistry Polymers and Plastics