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

Germain RN (2001) The art of the probable: system control in the adaptive immune system. Science 293:240–245

A journal article with 2 authors

Chilingarian I, Zolotukhin I (2015) Galaxy evolution. Isolated compact elliptical galaxies: stellar systems that ran away. Science 348:418–421

A journal article with 3 authors

Hornbach MJ, Saffer DM, Holbrook WS (2004) Critically pressured free-gas reservoirs below gas-hydrate provinces. Nature 427:142–144

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Salehi-Ashtiani K, Lupták A, Litovchick A, Szostak JW (2006) A genomewide search for ribozymes reveals an HDV-like sequence in the human CPEB3 gene. Science 313:1788–1792

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fanchi JR (2006) Math Refresher for Scientists and Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Salam MA (2016) Power Systems Grounding. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Yin Y, Kaku I, Tang J, Zhu J (2011) Genetic Algorithm-based Fuzzy Nonlinear Programming. In: Kaku I, Tang J, Zhu J (eds) Data Mining: Concepts, Methods and Applications in Management and Engineering Design. Springer, London, pp 55–86

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) Paleo Diet? Science Has Moved On Since The Stone Age. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/paleo-diet-science-has-moved-stone-age/. 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 (1974) Inquiry About the Research Grant To Develop a Portable Computer To Record Traffic Information for Verifying the Accuracy of Charges for Telecommunications Service. 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

Duggimpudi MB (2017) Object Ranking Algorithms for Improved Decision Making. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Baker AL, David Goodman J (2015) New York Police to Strictly Track the Use of Force. New York Times A1

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

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