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 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

Bromm V (2007) Astronomy. From darkness to light. Science 317:1511–1512

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayer R, Colgrove J (2002) Public health vs. civil liberties. Science 297:1811

A journal article with 3 authors

Schoffelen J-M, Oostenveld R, Fries P (2005) Neuronal coherence as a mechanism of effective corticospinal interaction. Science 308:111–113

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cesaroni R, Galli D, Lodato G, et al (2006) The critical role of disks in the formation of high-mass stars. Nature 444:703–706

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Warren A (2013) Dunes. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Martin DK (2007) Nanobiotechnology of Biomimetic Membranes. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Nickpour F, O’Sullivan C (2016) Designing an Innovative Walking Aid Kit; A Case Study of Design in Inclusive Healthcare Products. In: Langdon P, Lazar J, Heylighen A, Dong H (eds) Designing Around People: CWUAAT 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 45–54

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

Andrews R (2015) Scientists Can Now Make Leukemia Cells Kill Each Other. 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 (2000) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Progress of the Global Hawk Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration. 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

Haneef NJ (2009) A synthesized conceptual framework for the design of user interfaces of interactive information products. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Barron J (2017) It’s Time to Retrieve Time’s Time Capsule. New York Times A20

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