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 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

Frenkel D (2002) Colloidal systems. Playing tricks with designer “atoms.” Science 296:65–66

A journal article with 2 authors

Kirkup BC, Riley MA (2004) Antibiotic-mediated antagonism leads to a bacterial game of rock-paper-scissors in vivo. Nature 428:412–414

A journal article with 3 authors

Suzuki T, Asami M, Perry ACF (2014) Asymmetric parental genome engineering by Cas9 during mouse meiotic exit. Sci Rep 4:7621

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jansen VAA, Stollenwerk N, Jensen HJ, et al (2003) Measles outbreaks in a population with declining vaccine uptake. Science 301:804

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chu PP (2006) RTL Hardware Design Using VHDL. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Guzmán CA, Feuerstein GZ (2009) Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Cao L, Zhang C, Yu PS, Zhao Y (2010) Knowledge Actionability. In: Yu PS, Zhang C, Zhao Y (eds) Domain Driven Data Mining. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 75–91

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

Hale T (2017) This Bull Shark Was Found In The Middle Of The Road In Australia. In: IFLScience. 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 (2008) Indoor Mold: Ongoing and Recently Completed Federal Research Activities (GAO-08-984SP, September 2008), an E-supplement to GAO-08-980. 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

Hill L (2015) Unique forms of knowledge and curriculum in hip-hop pedagogy. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

McKINLEY JC Jr (2017) Prosecutors Drop Charges Against a Bronx Teenager. New York Times A20

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