How to format your references using the Polymers citation style

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

Kamien, R.D. Materials Science. Better Geometry through Chemistry. Science 2007, 315, 1083–1084.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jellinek, A.M.; Manga, M. The Influence of a Chemical Boundary Layer on the Fixity, Spacing and Lifetime of Mantle Plumes. Nature 2002, 418, 760–763.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hwang, T.J.; Carpenter, D.; Kesselheim, A.S. Target Small Firms for Antibiotic Innovation. Science 2014, 344, 967–969.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Soma, S.; Shimegi, S.; Suematsu, N.; Sato, H. Cholinergic Modulation of Response Gain in the Rat Primary Visual Cortex. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1138.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Billingsley, J. Essentials of Mechatronics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2006; ISBN 9780471791539.

An edited book

Integration and Innovation Orient to E-Society Volume 1: Seventh IFIP International Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E2007), October 10–12, Wuhan, China; Wang, W., Li, Y., Duan, Z., Yan, L., Li, H., Yang, X., Eds.; IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2007; Vol. 251; ISBN 9780387754659.

A chapter in an edited book

Stahl, G. Interactional Methods and Social Practices in VMT. In Studying Virtual Math Teams; Stahl, G., Ed.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2009; pp. 41–55 ISBN 9781441902276.

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 Polymers.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Are We Ready For A Test That Could ‘Pre-Diagnose’ Autism In Babies? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-we-ready-test-could-pre-diagnose-autism-babies/ (accessed on 30 October 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 ADP Procurements: GSA Needs to Improve Its Review Process to Enhance Its ADP Oversight; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Snyder, Q.Z. From Anarchy to Confederacy: A Theory of International Politics. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 2010.

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

Wagner, J. Like Cubs, the Nationals Seek to End a Drought. New York Times 2016, B9.

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	Polymers
Abbreviation	Polymers (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2073-4360
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