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

Reichhardt T (2000) New form of hydrogen power provokes scepticism. Nature 404:218

A journal article with 2 authors

Sugarman J, Siegel AW (2008) Research ethics. When embryonic stem cell lines fail to meet consent standards. Science 322:379

A journal article with 3 authors

Aizen MA, Sabatino M, Tylianakis JM (2012) Specialization and rarity predict nonrandom loss of interactions from mutualist networks. Science 335:1486–1489

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Knill E, Laflamme R, Martinez R, Tseng CH (2000) An algorithmic benchmark for quantum information processing. Nature 404:368–370

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gasser W, Heiner E, Elk K (2005) Greensche Funktionen in Festkörper- und Vielteilchenphysik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Wang X (2009) Mathematics of Fuzziness – Basic Issues. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Krishnamurti R (2015) Raising the i-Factor: Bridging Parametric Shape and Parametric Design. In: Gero JS (ed) Studying Visual and Spatial Reasoning for Design Creativity. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 67–88

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) SpaceX May Start Launches Again As Soon As November After Rocket Explosion. 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 (1989) Space Operations: NASA’s Communications Support for Earth Orbiting Spacecraft. 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

Samel C (2014) Imagination and negotiation: Motivations for Cambodian women to marry Cambodian American men. 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

Saslow L (2006) Replacing Yellow Buses, With Green in Mind. New York Times 14LI2

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