How to format your references using the Polymer Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Polymer Bulletin. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Thulborn T (2003) Comment on “Ascent of dinosaurs linked to an iridium anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary.” Science 301:169; author reply 169

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuan F, Huang L (2014) Brittle to ductile transition in densified silica glass. Sci Rep 4:5035

A journal article with 3 authors

Adini Y, Sagi D, Tsodyks M (2002) Context-enabled learning in the human visual system. Nature 415:790–793

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yoshida N, Oeda K, Watanabe E, et al (2001) Protein function. Chaperonin turned insect toxin. Nature 411:44

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schütz H, Wiedemann PM, Hennings W, et al (2006) Comparative Risk Assessment. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Harrod RP (2014) Bioarchaeology of Climate Change and Violence: Ethical Considerations. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Majeed H, Ryan C (2006) A Less Destructive, Context-Aware Crossover Operator for GP. In: Collet P, Tomassini M, Ebner M, et al (eds) Genetic Programming: 9th European Conference, EuroGP 2006, Budapest, Hungary, April 10-12, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 36–48

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 Bulletin.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Dark Matter Is Killing Galaxies That Enter The Coma Cluster. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dead-galaxies-might-be-explained-dark-matter-cushions/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2006) Child Care and Early Childhood Education: More Information Sharing and Program Review by HHS Could Enhance Access for Families with Limited English Proficiency (Chinese Version). 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

Jensen ME (2010) A comparison of school psychologists’ and school counselors’ ability to identify cognitive abilities underlying basic academic tasks. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Kelly P (1972) Letter to the Editor 3 -- No Title. New York Times Book ReviewBR8

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 Bulletin
Abbreviation	Polym. Bull. (Berl.)
ISSN (print)	0170-0839
ISSN (online)	1436-2449
Scope	General Chemistry Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics Condensed Matter Physics