How to format your references using the Iranian Polymer Journal citation style

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

Tegmark M (2000) Cosmology. The dark side of distortion. Nature 405:133–134

A journal article with 2 authors

Poole A, Penny D (2007) Eukaryote evolution: engulfed by speculation. Nature 447:913

A journal article with 3 authors

Mason GJ, Cooper J, Clarebrough C (2001) Frustrations of fur-farmed mink. Nature 410:35–36

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Barnea G, O’Donnell S, Mancia F, et al (2004) Odorant receptors on axon termini in the brain. Science 304:1468

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meinert CL (2012) Clinical Trials Dictionary. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lin Y-K, Tsao Y-C, Lin S-W (2013) Proceedings of the Institute of Industrial Engineers Asian Conference 2013. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Zheng R, Hua C (2016) Spectrum Sensing and Access in Cognitive Radio Networks. In: Hua C (ed) Sequential Learning and Decision-Making in Wireless Resource Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 61–69

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 Iranian Polymer Journal.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) Massive Haul Of Meteorites Found In Iranian Desert. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/massive-haul-meteorites-found-iranian-desert/. 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 (2009) Federal Student Aid Formula: Cost-of-Living Adjustment Could Increase Aid to a Small Percentage of Students in High-Cost Areas but Could Also Further Complicate Aid Process. 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

Mocilnikar GE (2011) Playing with movies: An examination of the interactions between music and film in “Fantasie for horn and film.” 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

Stewart JB (2017) For Tax Reform Lessons, Congress Needn’t Look Far. New York Times B1

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	Iranian Polymer Journal
Abbreviation	Iran. Polym. J.
ISSN (print)	1026-1265
ISSN (online)	1735-5265
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics