How to format your references using the Progress in Polymer Science citation style

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

Dalton R. Deputies caught on the wrong side of the law. Nature 2001;411:876.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Deschenes LA, Vanden Bout DA. Single-molecule studies of heterogeneous dynamics in polymer melts near the glass transition. Science 2001;292:255–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Karl M, Nowak B, Gasenzer T. Tuning universality far from equilibrium. Sci Rep 2013;3:2394.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Li M, Chen D, Shiloh A, Luo J, Nikolaev AY, Qin J, et al. Deubiquitination of p53 by HAUSP is an important pathway for p53 stabilization. Nature 2002;416:648–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wartewig S. IR and Raman Spectroscopy. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Liu B-L, Lee S-J, Wang L, Li X, Xiao J-H, editors. Contemporary Logistics in China: Consolidation and Deepening. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Meiners CR, Liu AX, Torng E. Bit Weaving. In: Liu AX, Torng E, editors. Hardware Based Packet Classification for High Speed Internet Routers, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010, p. 41–56.

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 Progress in Polymer Science.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Rapid Evolution Lets Tasmanian Devils Fight Back Against Fatal Cancer. 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. Social Security: Leadership Structure for an Independent Social Security Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mayfield KM. Project managers’ experience and description of decision uncertainty associated with the agile software development methodology: A phenomenological study. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2010.

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]

Crow K. Idling Buses Leave a Stain of Pollution on a Jewel of a Park. New York Times 2000:147.

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	Progress in Polymer Science
Abbreviation	Prog. Polym. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0079-6700
Scope	Organic Chemistry Ceramics and Composites Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics Surfaces and Interfaces