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 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

Scheschkewitz, D., “Comment on ‘Single-crystal X-ray structure of 1,3-dimethylcyclobutadiene by confinement in a crystalline matrix’”, Science, 330(6007), pp. 1047; author reply 1047 (2010).

A journal article with 2 authors

Hinck, S. and Schiermeier, Q., “Will industry play a bigger role in Europe’s aims to promote mobility among postdocs?”, Nature, 421(6920), pp. 296–297 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

Milinski, M., Semmann, D., and Krambeck, H.-J., “Reputation helps solve the ‘tragedy of the commons’”, Nature, 415(6870), pp. 424–426 (2002).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Makishima, S., Komoriya, K., Yamaguchi, S., and Aizawa, S. I., “Length of the flagellar hook and the capacity of the type III export apparatus”, Science, 291(5512), pp. 2411–2413 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flynn, J. R., How to Improve Your Mind, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2012).

An edited book

Chew, E., Childs, A., and Chuan, C.-H., Eds., Mathematics and Computation in Music: Second International Conference, MCM 2009, John Clough Memorial Conference New Haven, CT, USA, June 19-22, 2009. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009).

A chapter in an edited book

Massey, S. and Quirk, S., “Initial Processing”, In Deep-Sky Video Astronomy, S. Massey, Ed., Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series, Springer, New York, NY, pp. 71–81 (2009).

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., “Global Sea Ice Is Now At The Lowest Extent It Has Ever Been”, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-sea-ice-is-now-at-the-lowest-extent-it-has-ever-been/.

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, Cost/Benefit Analysis--A Legislative Branch Viewpoint, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1979).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim, C. S., “Electronic Transport of Thin Crystals in Ruthenium Chloride”, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach (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

Kishkovsky, S., “Russians See Church and State Come Closer”, New York Times (November 1, 2012).

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