How to format your references using the Reactive and Functional Polymers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reactive and Functional Polymers. 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]

V.F. Scalfani, Finally free, Science 346 (2014) 1258.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Tilman, F. Isbell, Biodiversity: Recovery as nitrogen declines, Nature 528 (2015) 336–337.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.P. Rohr, S. Saavedra, J. Bascompte, Ecological networks. On the structural stability of mutualistic systems, Science 345 (2014) 1253497.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.-I. Ho, C.-H. Huang, J.-H. Liao, W. Zhang, L.-J. Li, C.-S. Lai, C.-Y. Su, Fluorinated graphene as high performance dielectric materials and the applications for graphene nanoelectronics, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5893.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.W. Edwards, Risk Management in Trading, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

D. Grass, Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes: With Applications in Drugs, Corruption, and Terror, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Gilboa, Induction of Tumor Immunity by Targeted Inhibition of Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay, in: J. Rosenblatt, E.R. Podack, G.N. Barber, A. Ochoa (Eds.), Advances in Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 67–82.

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 Reactive and Functional Polymers.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, New Horizons Phoned Home!, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-phoned-home0/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Federal Transit Programs: Federal Transit Administration Has Opportunities to Improve Performance Accountability, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.N. Nunn, A Puer–Senex Archetypal Model of the Therapeutic Relationship, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014.

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]

T. Cowen, Open Markets, but Maybe Not Open Minds, New York Times (2015) BU6.

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	Reactive and Functional Polymers
Abbreviation	React. Funct. Polym.
ISSN (print)	1381-5148
Scope	Biochemistry General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Environmental Chemistry Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics