How to format your references using the Arabian Journal of Chemistry citation style

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

Howard, K., 2003. The view from the top. Nature 426, 696–697.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kazmierczak, J., Altermann, W., 2002. Neoarchean biomineralization by benthic cyanobacteria. Science 298, 2351.

A journal article with 3 authors

Staal, M., Meysman, F.J.R., Stal, L.J., 2003. Temperature excludes N2-fixing heterocystous cyanobacteria in the tropical oceans. Nature 425, 504–507.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, S., Cui, L., Hao, S., Jiang, D., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Mao, S., Han, X., Ren, Y., 2014. Locality and rapidity of the ultra-large elastic deformation of Nb nanowires in a NiTi phase-transforming matrix. Sci. Rep. 4, 6753.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ezra, D., Collie, B., Smith, M.X., 2009. The Retirement Plan Solution. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Korin, M.R. (Ed.), 2016. Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Subbiahdoss, G., da Silva Domingues, J.F., Kuijer, R., van der Mei, H.C., Busscher, H.J., 2013. Bridging the Gap Between In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of Biomaterial-Associated Infections, in: Moriarty, T.F., Zaat, S.A.J., Busscher, H.J. (Eds.), Biomaterials Associated Infection: Immunological Aspects and Antimicrobial Strategies. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 107–117.

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 of Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2017. People Hadn’t Set Foot In This Ancient “Lost City” In The Honduran Jungle For 500 Years — Until Now [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2012. Motorcycle Safety: Increasing Federal Funding Flexibility and Identifying Research Priorities Would Help Support States’ Safety Efforts (No. GAO-13-42). 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

Robinson-Scott, D., 2010. Policy analysis of the Chafee Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2005. Justices Agree to Consider EBay Appeal in Patent Case. New York Times C9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Howard, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Howard, 2003; Kazmierczak and Altermann, 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Kazmierczak and Altermann, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Arabian Journal of Chemistry
Abbreviation	Arab. J. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1878-5352
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry