How to format your references using the European Polymer Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Polymer Journal. 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

[1]

S.D. Guikema, Engineering. Infrastructure design issues in disaster-prone regions, Science 323 (2009) 1302–1303.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Yusufzai, J.T. Kadonaga, HARP is an ATP-driven annealing helicase, Science 322 (2008) 748–750.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.L. Clem, T. Celikel, A.L. Barth, Ongoing in vivo experience triggers synaptic metaplasticity in the neocortex, Science 319 (2008) 101–104.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z. Xiao-Hong, L. Lan-Hua, X. Wei-Qi, S. Bao-Dong, S. Jian-Wu, H. Miao, S. Han-Chang, A reusable evanescent wave immunosensor for highly sensitive detection of bisphenol A in water samples, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4572.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Tobias, D. Hochhauser, Cancer and its Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Z. Horváth, ed., Central European Functional Programming School: First Summer School, CEFP 2005, Budapest, Hungary, July 4-15, 2005, Revised Selected Lectures, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Dedecker, P. Doukhan, G. Lang, L.R. José Rafael, S. Louhichi, C. Prieur, Tools for causal cases, in: P. Doukhan, G. Lang, L.R. José Rafael, S. Louhichi, C. Prieur (Eds.), Weak Dependence: With Examples and Applications, Springer, New York, NY, 2007: pp. 103–134.

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 European Polymer Journal.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, 139 New Species Discovered In Mekong, Including Thorny Tree Frog And “Dementor” Wasp, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/139-new-species-discovered-mekong-including-thorny-tree-frog-and-dementor-wasp/ (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, Women in STEM Research: Better Data and Information Sharing Could Improve Oversight of Federal Grant-making and Title IX Compliance, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N. Saldivar, Understanding the impact of AB-12 on the child welfare workforce, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

M. Kelly, THE TRANSITION: Packaging the Candidate; The Making of a First Family: a Blueprint, New York Times (1992) 11.

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	European Polymer Journal
Abbreviation	Eur. Polym. J.
ISSN (print)	0014-3057
Scope	Organic Chemistry Polymers and Plastics General Physics and Astronomy