How to format your references using the Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition. 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]

Henderson GM. Ocean science. Coral clues to rapid sea-level change. Science. 2005;308(5720):361–362.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bernays EA, Singer MS. Insect defences: taste alteration and endoparasites. Nature. 2005;436(7050):476.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sadeghi O, Zakharov LN, Nyman M. Crystal growth. Aqueous formation and manipulation of the iron-oxo Keggin ion. Science. 2015;347(6228):1359–1362.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Lu R, Maduro M, Li F, et al. Animal virus replication and RNAi-mediated antiviral silencing in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 2005;436(7053):1040–1043.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nazarov VE, Radostin AV. Nonlinear Acoustic Waves in Micro-inhomogeneous Solids. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Commisso TH, Nørbjerg J, Pries-Heje J, editors. Nordic Contributions in IS Research: 5th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2014, Ringsted, Denmark, August 10-13, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dingsøyr T. Strategies and Approaches for Managing Architectural Knowledge. In: Ali Babar M, Dingsøyr T, Lago P, et al., editors. Software Architecture Knowledge Management: Theory and Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 59–68.

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 Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. The Prime Meridian Line In Greenwich Is In The Wrong Place. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Aviation Security: Improved Controls Needed To Prevent Unauthorized Access at Key Airports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988. Report No.: RCED-88-86. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Huffman KD. Teacher and administrator perceptions of a balanced school calendar and its effects on students in poverty [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2009.

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]

Kelly S. CHILDREN’S BOOKS. New York Times. 2003 Mar 9;724.

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	Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition
Abbreviation	J. Biomater. Sci. Polym. Ed.
ISSN (print)	0920-5063
ISSN (online)	1568-5624
Scope	Biophysics Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials