How to format your references using the Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (IJPR). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

(1)

Kaplan K. Personnel dilemma. Nature (2009) 458: 372–373.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Conte MH and Weber JC. Plant biomarkers in aerosols record isotopic discrimination of terrestrial photosynthesis. Nature (2002) 417: 639–641.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1)

Kutnjak Z, Petzelt J, and Blinc R. The giant electromechanical response in ferroelectric relaxors as a critical phenomenon. Nature (2006) 441: 956–959.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

(1)

Ninfo A, Fontana A, Mozzi P, and Ferrarese F. The map of Altinum, ancestor of Venice. Science (2009) 325: 577.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Schwedt G. Chemie und Literatur - ein ungewöhnlicher Flirt. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2009).

An edited book

(1)

Bhushan B, Kawata S, and Fuchs H, editors. Applied Scanning Probe Methods V: Scanning Probe Microscopy Techniques. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007). (NanoScience and Technology).

A chapter in an edited book

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Reinarz J. Corpus Curricula: Medical Education and the Voluntary Hospital Movement. In: Whitaker H, Smith CUM, and Finger S. (eds.) Brain, Mind and Medicine: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience Springer US, Boston, MA (2007) 43–52.

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 Journal of Pharmaceutical Research.

Blog post

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Davis J. Archaeologist Claims To Have Found Aristotle’s Tomb. IFLScience. IFLScience (2016) [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: URL: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-claims-have-found-aristotles-tomb/

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

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Government Accountability Office. Financial Management Systems: Experience with Prior Migration and Modernization Efforts Provides Lessons Learned for New Approach. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2010 Sep). Report No.: GAO-10-808.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

(1)

Cacciola JA. A quantitative study on retaining leadership talent within a naval aviation squadron [Doctoral dissertation]. Phoenix, AZ, University of Phoenix (2010).

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

(1)

Kishkovsky S. Honor a Literary Giant, But Be Careful Where. New York Times (2008) A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Journal of Pharmaceutical Research
ISSN (print)	1735-0328
ISSN (online)	1726-6890
Scope