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]

R.A. Kerr, EARTH SCIENCE: Did Volcanoes Drive Ancient Extinctions?, Science. 289 (2000) 1130–1131.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Kroymann, T. Mitchell-Olds, Epistasis and balanced polymorphism influencing complex trait variation, Nature. 435 (2005) 95–98.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.E. Kaiser, R.V. Intine, M. Dundr, De novo formation of a subnuclear body, Science. 322 (2008) 1713–1717.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Wang, I. Garcia-Bassets, C. Benner, W. Li, X. Su, Y. Zhou, J. Qiu, W. Liu, M.U. Kaikkonen, K.A. Ohgi, C.K. Glass, M.G. Rosenfeld, X.-D. Fu, Reprogramming transcription by distinct classes of enhancers functionally defined by eRNA, Nature. 474 (2011) 390–394.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Harte, Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. Singh, M. Devine, eds., Rural Transformation and Newfoundland and Labrador Diaspora: Grandparents, Grandparenting, Community and School Relations, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.L. Coutu, M. François, J. Galipeau, Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Tissue Repair, in: D.S. Allan, D. Strunk (Eds.), Regenerative Therapy Using Blood-Derived Stem Cells, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2012: pp. 35–51.

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, Cracks in Pluto’s Moon Reveal Underground Ocean, 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, Making Evaluations Relevant to Congressional Needs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Leung, The Effect of Mission Assurance on ELV Launch Success Rate: An Analysis of Two Management Systems for Launch Vehicles, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2014.

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. McWHORTER, How to Listen to Donald Trump Every Day for Years, New York Times. (2017) SR1.

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