How to format your references using the Carbohydrate Polymers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Carbohydrate 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bevan, M. (2003). Plant science. Surprises inside a green grass genome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5625), 1514–1515.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sánchez, I., & Dynlacht, B. D. (2014). Cell biology: Short RNAs and shortness of breath. Nature, 510(7503), 40–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reinhard, C. T., Planavsky, N. J., & Lyons, T. W. (2013). Long-term sedimentary recycling of rare sulphur isotope anomalies. Nature, 497(7447), 100–103.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yu, Y., Han, S., Chu, X., Chu, S.-I., & Wang, Z. (2002). Coherent temporal oscillations of macroscopic quantum states in a Josephson junction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5569), 889–892.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Bodic, G. (2005). Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Devos, A. S., & Blickman, J. G. (Eds.). (2008). Radiological Imaging of the Digestive Tract in Infants and Children. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Glatzel, M. (2005). Human prion diseases: novel diagnostic principles. In T. Kitamoto (Ed.), Prions: Food and Drug Safety (pp. 67–76). Springer.

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 Carbohydrate Polymers.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, June 7). Gravitational Lenses Let Astronomers See Brightest Galaxies Like Never Before. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/gravitational-lenses-let-astronomers-see-brightest-galaxies-like-never-before/

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. (1990). FAA Encountering Problems in Acquiring Major Automated Systems (T-IMTEC-90-9). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

DiPasquale, V. L. (2010). A phenomenological study of industry professionals’ perceptions of ethics in the title insurance industry [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Johnson, G. (2016, May 17). A Carnival of Consciousness. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Bevan, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bevan, 2003; Sánchez & Dynlacht, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Sánchez & Dynlacht, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Carbohydrate Polymers
Abbreviation	Carbohydr. Polym.
ISSN (print)	0144-8617
Scope	Organic Chemistry Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics