How to format your references using the International Journal of Plastics Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Plastics Technology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Kirkpatrick S (2003) Computer science. Rough times ahead. Science 299:668–669

A journal article with 2 authors

Lord CJ, Ashworth A (2012) The DNA damage response and cancer therapy. Nature 481:287–294

A journal article with 3 authors

Pagel M, Venditti C, Meade A (2006) Large punctuational contribution of speciation to evolutionary divergence at the molecular level. Science 314:119–121

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sherson JF, Krauter H, Olsson RK, et al (2006) Quantum teleportation between light and matter. Nature 443:557–560

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Idelberger K (2011) The World of Footbridges. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Lloyd HM (2013) The Discourse of Sensibility: The Knowing Body in the Enlightenment. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Álvarez P, Hernández S, Fabra J, Ezpeleta J (2016) Cost Estimation for the Provisioning of Computing Resources to Execute Bag-of-Tasks Applications in the Amazon Cloud. In: Altmann J, Silaghi GC, Rana OF (eds) Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 12th International Conference, GECON 2015, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 15-17, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 65–77

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 International Journal of Plastics Technology.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Check Out These Awesome Pictures Of A Space Shuttle Tank’s Trip Through Los Angeles. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/check-out-these-awesome-pictures-space-shuttle-tank-s-trip-through-los-angeles/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2008) Information Technology: FBI Is Implementing Key Acquisition Methods on Its New Case Management System, but Related Agencywide Guidance Needs to Be Improved. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Turney JJ (2014) Police supervisory attributes that influence attitude towards Critical Incident Stress Management programs. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

George R (2012) The Taboo of Menstruation. New York Times A19

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	International Journal of Plastics Technology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Plast. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0972-656X
ISSN (online)	0975-072X
Scope	Polymers and Plastics