How to format your references using the Polymer Testing citation style

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

D.B. Goldstein, Growth of genome screening needs debate, Nature 476 (2011) 27–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.W. Vaughn, R. Martienssen, It’s a small RNA world, after all, Science 309 (2005) 1525–1526.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Sleutels, R. Zwart, D.P. Barlow, The non-coding Air RNA is required for silencing autosomal imprinted genes, Nature 415 (2002) 810–813.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Nussman, F.C. Coleman, W.F. Figueira, J.S. Ueland, L.B. Crowder, The Recreational Fisher’s Perspective, Science 307 (2005) 1560c–1561c.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.J. Evans, Markets for Managers, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

K. Maharatna, G.K. Dalapati, P.K. Banerjee, A.K. Mallick, M. Mukherjee, eds., Computational Advancement in Communication Circuits and Systems: Proceedings of ICCACCS 2014, Springer India, New Delhi, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.A. Nourbakhsh, B.A. Jaumotte, C. Hirsch, H.B. Parizi, Axial and Radial Thrusts, in: S.A. Nourbakhsh, B.A. Jaumotte, C. Hirsch, H.B. Parizi (Eds.), Turbopumps and Pumping Systems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 51–65.

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 Polymer Testing.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Peeing While Swimming Is OK If You’re A Fish, IFLScience (2016).

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, Drug Control: Status of Plan to Use Federal Research and Development Facilities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.J. Thompson, Textiles as Indicators of Hopewellian Culture Burial Practices, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2003.

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]

L. Saslow, Loop Drawbridge to Try Car-Friendly Schedule, New York Times (2006) 14LI2.

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	Polymer Testing
Abbreviation	Polym. Test.
ISSN (print)	0142-9418
Scope	Organic Chemistry Polymers and Plastics