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

Putterman, L., 2010. Behavior. Cooperation and punishment. Science 328, 578–579.

A journal article with 2 authors

Venkatesan, A.K., Halden, R.U., 2014. Wastewater treatment plants as chemical observatories to forecast ecological and human health risks of manmade chemicals. Sci. Rep. 4, 3731.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilson, R.I., Turner, G.C., Laurent, G., 2004. Transformation of olfactory representations in the Drosophila antennal lobe. Science 303, 366–370.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pagani, M., Caldeira, K., Berner, R., Beerling, D.J., 2009. The role of terrestrial plants in limiting atmospheric CO(2) decline over the past 24 million years. Nature 460, 85–88.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackenzie, B., Njikizana, T., Coetsee, D., Chamboko, R., Colyvas, B., Hanekom, B., Selbst, E., 2014. 2014 Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Xu, L., Afsarmanesh, H. (Eds.), 2012. Collaborative Networks in the Internet of Services: 13th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2012, Bournemouth, UK, October 1-3, 2012. Proceedings, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Madalińska-Bugaj, E., Łukaszewicz, W., 2005. Belief Revision Revisited, in: Gelbukh, A., Albornoz, Á. de, Terashima-Marín, H. (Eds.), MICAI 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Monterrey, Mexico, November 14-18, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 31–40.

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, E., 2015. You Could Have Your Very Own Jetpack by Late 2016 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/you-could-have-your-very-own-jetpack-late-2016/ (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, 2014. DOE Loan Programs: DOE Has Made More Than $30 Billion in Loans and Guarantees and Needs to Fully Develop Its Loan Monitoring Function (No. GAO-14-645T). 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

Thompson, K., 2015. Paid formal caregivers and caregiver burden: A quantitative study (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

Wagner, J., 2017. One Lesson for d’Arnaud: Learning Not to Throw With ‘Too Much Arm.’ New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Putterman, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Putterman, 2010; Venkatesan and Halden, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Venkatesan and Halden, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Pagani et al., 2009)

About the journal

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

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