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]

D. Schimpf, A benefit of being big, Science 290 (2000) 453c.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Delaval, S. Doxsey, Genetics. Dwarfism, where pericentrin gains stature, Science 319 (2008) 732–733.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Callender, I. Quinn, D. Tymoczko, Generalized voice-leading spaces, Science 320 (2008) 346–348.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Raphael, S. Mahesula, A. Purkar, D. Black, A. Catala, J.A.L. Gelfond, T.G. Forsthuber, W.E. Haskins, Microwave & magnetic (M2) proteomics reveals CNS-specific protein expression waves that precede clinical symptoms of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6210.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Schwedt, Experimente rund um die Kunststoffe des Alltags, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

K. Jensen, W.M.P. van der Aalst, G. Balbo, M. Koutny, K. Wolf, eds., Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency VII, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

X. Tang, N. Zhang, Z. Wang, Exploration of TCM Masters Knowledge Mining, in: Y. Shi, G.D. van Albada, J. Dongarra, P.M.A. Sloot (Eds.), Computational Science – ICCS 2007: 7th International Conference, Beijing, China, May 27 - 30, 2007, Proceedings, Part IV, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 35–42.

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]

J. Fang, The Same Gene Blackens Moths And Colors Butterflies, IFLScience (2016).

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, Automated Support for the Assessment Panel Process, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Marcus, Voices of survival: Opera in Theresienstadt, 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]

B. Kenigsberg, Review: In ‘Tank 432,’ on the Run, but Stuck in a Morass, New York Times (2016) C6.

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