How to format your references using the Scientia Iranica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scientia Iranica. 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

Palmer, T., “Modelling: Build imprecise supercomputers”, Nature, 526(7571), pp. 32–33 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Zaret, K. S. and Grompe, M., “Generation and regeneration of cells of the liver and pancreas”, Science, 322(5907), pp. 1490–1494 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

Okada, Y., Higuchi, H., and Hirokawa, N., “Processivity of the single-headed kinesin KIF1A through biased binding to tubulin”, Nature, 424(6948), pp. 574–577 (2003).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Marchewka, A., Cooper, D., Lenser, C., Menzel, S., Du, H., Dittmann, R., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., and Waser, R., “Determination of the electrostatic potential distribution in Pt/Fe:SrTiO₃/Nb:SrTiO₃ thin-film structures by electron holography”, Sci. Rep., 4, p. 6975 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Castle, D., Cline, C., Daar, A. S., Tsamis, C., and Singer, P. A., Science, Society, and the Supermarket, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2006).

An edited book

Angelici, F. M., Ed., Problematic Wildlife: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach, Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Scattolin, N., Zanolla, S., Rodà, A., and Canazza, S., “SoundingARM Assisted Representation of a Map”, In Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence: Contemporary Challenges and Solutions, T. Bosse, D. J. Cook, M. Neerincx, and F. Sadri, Eds., Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence, Atlantis Press, Paris, pp. 73–86 (2013).

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 Scientia Iranica.

Blog post

Davis, J., “Hair Analysis Shows Aboriginal People Have Been Living In The Same Places For 50,000 Years”, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/hair-analysis-shows-aboriginal-people-have-been-living-in-the-same-places-for-50000-years/.

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, Surface Transportation: States Are Experimenting With Design-Build Contracting, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ray, S. J., “Departmentalized Classroom Environments Versus Traditional Classroom Environments in Second Through Fourth Grades: A Quantitative Analysis”, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University (2017).

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

Kelly, C., “Shelter’s Legal Arm Observes Anniversary”, New York Times (March 25, 2007).

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	Scientia Iranica
ISSN (print)	1026-3098
ISSN (online)	2345-3605
Scope