How to format your references using the Reactive and Functional Polymers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reactive and Functional 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	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]

K. Emanuel, Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years, Nature 436 (2005) 686–688.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.S. Kolar, D.M. Lodge, Ecological predictions and risk assessment for alien fishes in North America, Science 298 (2002) 1233–1236.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Boos, M. Yekezare, J.F.X. Diffley, Identification of a heteromeric complex that promotes DNA replication origin firing in human cells, Science 340 (2013) 981–984.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Rolef Ben-Shahar, S. Heeger, C. Lehane, P. East, H. Flynn, M. Skehel, F. Uhlmann, Eco1-dependent cohesin acetylation during establishment of sister chromatid cohesion, Science 321 (2008) 563–566.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Z. He, Wavelet Analysis and Transient Signal Processing Applications for Power Systems, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

N. Ansell, N. Klocker, T. Skelton, eds., Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat, Springer, Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Bein, A.K. Datta, B.A. Sathyanarayanan, Efficient Broadcasting by Selective Forwarding, in: G.A. Papadopoulos, C. Badica (Eds.), Intelligent Distributed Computing III: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2009, Ayia Napa, Cyprus,October 2009, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 43–52.

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 Reactive and Functional Polymers.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Breath Test Being Developed To Detect Lung Cancer, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/breath-test-being-developed-detect-lung-cancer/ (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, Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.S. Caltrider, Critical Pedagogy Unit of Ceramics Instruction: Fostering Civic Engagement in California High School Students, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

L. Greenhouse, Breathing While Undocumented, New York Times (2010) A23.

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	Reactive and Functional Polymers
Abbreviation	React. Funct. Polym.
ISSN (print)	1381-5148
Scope	Biochemistry General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Environmental Chemistry Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics