How to format your references using the Progress in Polymer Science citation style

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

Hirschmann MM. Geochemistry. Ironing out the oxidation of Earth’s mantle. Science 2009;325:545–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chen X, Yan G-Y. Semi-supervised learning for potential human microRNA-disease associations inference. Sci Rep 2014;4:5501.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhu BO, Zhao J, Feng Y. Active impedance metasurface with full 360° reflection phase tuning. Sci Rep 2013;3:3059.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Acinas SG, Klepac-Ceraj V, Hunt DE, Pharino C, Ceraj I, Distel DL, et al. Fine-scale phylogenetic architecture of a complex bacterial community. Nature 2004;430:551–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mazer A. Shifting the Earth. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Wolter K, editor. Formal Methods and Stochastic Models for Performance Evaluation: Fourth European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 2007, Berlin, Germany, September 27-28, 2007. Proceedings. vol. 4748. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Urban Z. Variational Principles for Immersed Submanifolds. In: Zenkov DV, editor. The Inverse Problem of the Calculus of Variations: Local and Global Theory, Paris: Atlantis Press; 2015, p. 103–70.

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 Progress in Polymer Science.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Plants Can Actually Take Care Of Their Offspring – Here’s How. 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. Special Education: Additional Federal Actions Could Help Address Unique Challenges of Educating Children in Nursing Homes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Atchison D. An Examination of Educational Equity: The Impact of Accountability and Finance Reform Policies. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2017.

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]

Pilon M. Hitting the Wall: For Marathon Charities, Numbers Are Slowing. New York Times 2013:A1.

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	Progress in Polymer Science
Abbreviation	Prog. Polym. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0079-6700
Scope	Organic Chemistry Ceramics and Composites Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics Surfaces and Interfaces