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

Glynn I (2001) An intriguing door. Nature 413:683

A journal article with 2 authors

Kent DV, Tauxe L (2005) Corrected Late Triassic latitudes for continents adjacent to the North Atlantic. Science 307:240–244

A journal article with 3 authors

Haynes J-D, Deichmann R, Rees G (2005) Eye-specific effects of binocular rivalry in the human lateral geniculate nucleus. Nature 438:496–499

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang L, Chen Y, Ma J, et al (2013) Hierarchical SnO2 nanospheres: bio-inspired mineralization, vulcanization, oxidation techniques, and the application for NO sensors. Sci Rep 3:3500

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anson EM (2014) Alexander’s Heirs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Liu X (2015) Public Budgeting Reform in China: Theory and Practice, 1st ed. 2015. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Renger M, Kolfschoten GL, de Vreede G-J (2008) Challenges in Collaborative Modeling: A Literature Review. In: Dietz JLG, Albani A, Barjis J (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering I: 4th International Workshop CIAO! and 4th International Workshop EOMAS, held at CAiSE 2008, Montpellier, France, June 16-17, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 61–77

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 (2013) Could a supernova be visible from Earth in the next 50 years? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-supernova-be-visible-earth-next-50-years/. 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 (1998) Air Force Aircraft: Reorganizing Mobility Aircraft Units Could Reduce Costs. 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

Coleman JM (2012) Classroom management: Whose responsibility is it? 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

Murphy MJO (2010) For Giddyup, Give a Horse a Holiday. New York Times WK2

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