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

Suderow HJ (2015) PHYSICS. Opening the gate on superconductivity. Science 350:1316–1317

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosegrant MW, Cline SA (2003) Global food security: challenges and policies. Science 302:1917–1919

A journal article with 3 authors

Phelps J, Webb EL, Agrawal A (2010) Land use. Does REDD+ threaten to recentralize forest governance? Science 328:312–313

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Singh PK, Parsek MR, Greenberg EP, Welsh MJ (2002) A component of innate immunity prevents bacterial biofilm development. Nature 417:552–555

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voldman SH (2014) ESD. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, United Kingdom

An edited book

Holodynski M (2005) Development of Emotions and Their Regulation: An Internalization Model. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Damiani C (2013) Modelling the Influence of Cell Signaling on the Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Networks. In: Lecca P (ed) Biomechanics of Cells and Tissues: Experiments, Models and Simulations. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 103–130

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

Andrew E (2015) Aerial Patrols Don’t See All The Sharks, But They’re Keeping People Safe. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/aerial-patrols-don-t-see-all-sharks-they-re-keeping-people-safe/. 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 (1987) ADP System: Patent Office’s Contract Renegotiation Behind Schedule. 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

Koyanagi T (2017) Design and Synthesis of Archaea-Inspired Tetraether Lipids. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Markoff J (2017) Massachusetts Start-Up Trumpets Advance in Battery Capacity. New York Times B2

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