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]

A.E. Mattsson, Density functional theory. In pursuit of the “divine” functional, Science 298 (2002) 759–760.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.C. Bell, G. Felsenfeld, Methylation of a CTCF-dependent boundary controls imprinted expression of the Igf2 gene, Nature 405 (2000) 482–485.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Z.M. Hafed, L. Goffart, R.J. Krauzlis, A neural mechanism for microsaccade generation in the primate superior colliculus, Science 323 (2009) 940–943.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Bournaud, P.-A. Duc, E. Brinks, M. Boquien, P. Amram, U. Lisenfeld, B.S. Koribalski, F. Walter, V. Charmandaris, Missing mass in collisional debris from galaxies, Science 316 (2007) 1166–1169.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Steele, From Therapist to Coach, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

T.G. Townsend, Sustainable Practices for Landfill Design and Operation, Springer, New York, NY, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P.S. Rangi, Balloon Remodeling, in: K. Murphy, F. Robertson (Eds.), Interventional Neuroradiology, Springer, London, 2014: pp. 55–65.

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]

E. Andrew, How To Protect Planes And Passengers From Explosions On The Surface Of The Sun, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-protect-planes-and-passengers-explosions-surface-sun/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Years 1998 and 1997 Financial Statements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Sprague, Cultural perspectives among children of Guatemalan Maya immigrants in Lake Worth, Florida, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2012.

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]

J. Ryerson, University Presses, New York Times (2017) BR31.

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