How to format your references using the Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. 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

van den Heuvel, E.P.J.: Astronomy. An eccentric pulsar: result of a threesome? Science. 320, 1298–1299 (2008)

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray, J.A., Roth, B.L.: Cell biology. A last GASP for GPCRs? Science. 297, 529–531 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Bobrov, K., Mayne, A.J., Dujardin, G.: Atomic-scale imaging of insulating diamond through resonant electron injection. Nature. 413, 616–619 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, T.I., Causton, H.C., Holstege, F.C., Shen, W.C., Hannett, N., Jennings, E.G., Winston, F., Green, M.R., Young, R.A.: Redundant roles for the TFIID and SAGA complexes in global transcription. Nature. 405, 701–704 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Horrocks, G.: Greek. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2010)

An edited book

Toulouevski, Y.N.: Electric Arc Furnace with Flat Bath: Achievements and Prospects. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Thompson, K.: Disruptive Innovators? In: Evans, H.M. and Burt, T.P. (eds.) The Collegiate Way: University Education in a Collegiate Context. pp. 57–60. SensePublishers, Rotterdam (2016)

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 Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: The Anthropocene Has Been Shaped By The Media And Our Digital Lives, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/anthropocene-has-been-shaped-media-and-our-digital-lives/

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: Trade Adjustment Assistance: Labor Awarded Community College Grants in Accordance with Requirements, but Needs to Improve Its Process. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2012)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Skiold-Hanlin, S.: Functional and Ecological Aspects of the Mucus Trails of the Freshwater Gastropod Elimia potosiensis, (2015)

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

Eligon, J.: Cagey Mayweather Saves Fireworks for Last, (2017)

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	Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	Arab. J. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1319-8025
ISSN (online)	2191-4281
Scope	Multidisciplinary

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