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

Vihinen, M., 2015. No more hidden solutions in bioinformatics. Nature 521, 261.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kreft, H., Jetz, W., 2013. Comment on “An update of Wallace’s zoogeographic regions of the world.” Science 341, 343.

A journal article with 3 authors

Savill, J., Gregory, C., Haslett, C., 2003. Cell biology. Eat me or die. Science 302, 1516–1517.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Delsuc, F., Brinkmann, H., Chourrout, D., Philippe, H., 2006. Tunicates and not cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates. Nature 439, 965–968.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ushakov, I., 2012. Probabilistic Reliability Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Suit, H.D., 2011. Evolution of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Peter, H., 2014. Magnetic Field Diagnostics and Spatio-Temporal Variability of the Solar Transition Region, in: Tomczyk, S., Zhang, J., Bastian, T. (Eds.), Coronal Magnetometry. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 69–85.

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

Hale, T., 2016. This New Shade Of Blue Was Accidentally Discovered By Chemists [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/this-new-shade-of-blue-was-accidentally-discovered-by-chemists/ (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, 2011. Aviation Safety: Status of FAA’s Actions to Oversee the Safety of Composite Airplanes (No. GAO-11-849). 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

Theodore, J.A., 2014. A Framework for Comparative Analysis of Gene Expressions and Mutations Linked to Cancer (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. A Modest Proposal Says Colleges Should Educate. New York Times B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vihinen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kreft and Jetz, 2013; Vihinen, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kreft and Jetz, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Delsuc et al., 2006)

About the journal

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