How to format your references using the International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization (IJPAC). 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]

McLaren, J. R. 2014. Ecology: Diversity in the afterlife. Nature. 509:173–174.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jin, Z., Wang, J. 2014. PIN architecture for ultrasensitive organic thin film photoconductors. Sci. Rep. 4:5331.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Standen, E. M., Du, T. Y., Larsson, H. C. E. 2014. Developmental plasticity and the origin of tetrapods. Nature. 513:54–58.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Deluga, G. A., Salge, J. R., Schmidt, L. D., Verykios, X. E. 2004. Renewable hydrogen from ethanol by autothermal reforming. Science. 303:993–997.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Yeakley, C. L., Fiebrich, J. D. 2015. Collaborative Process Improvement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Hodler, J., Zollikofer, C. L., Schulthess, G. K. von. 2005. Musculoskeletal Diseases: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Techniques. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Calin, O., Chang, D.-C., Tie, J. 2005. Hermite Operator on the Heisenberg Group. In Harmonic Analysis, Signal Processing, and Complexity: Festschrift in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Carlos A. Berenstein, eds Sabadini, I., Struppa, D. C. and Walnut, D. F., pp 37–54. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA.

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 Polymer Analysis and Characterization.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz, S. 2016. The Year You Were Born Determines Which Strains Of Flu You’re Vulnerable To. IFLScience. [cited 30 October 2018]. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-year-you-were-born-determines-which-strains-of-flu-youre-vulnerable-to/.

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. 1999. Transportation Safety: Information Concerning Why a 1980 Aircraft Report Was Not Provided Earlier to the National Transportation Safety Board. 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

[1]

Tuinenga, J. M. 2010. John Corigliano’s Sonata for violin and piano: An analysis of context, structure, and style.

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]

Feinblatt, J. 2017. Ban the Open Carry of Firearms. New York Times.:A25.

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 Polymer Analysis and Characterization
ISSN (print)	1023-666X
ISSN (online)	1563-5341
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