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

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

Javitt G (2010) Which way for genetic-test regulation? Assign regulation appropriate to the level of risk. Nature 466:817–818

A journal article with 2 authors

Hu DL, Bush JWM (2005) Meniscus-climbing insects. Nature 437:733–736

A journal article with 3 authors

Loudet JC, Hanusse P, Poulin P (2004) Stokes drag on a sphere in a nematic liquid crystal. Science 306:1525

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bird AW, Yu DY, Pray-Grant MG, et al (2002) Acetylation of histone H4 by Esa1 is required for DNA double-strand break repair. Nature 419:411–415

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reed SM, Hrci (2017) The HRCI Official Body of Knowledge. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Schwoerer H, Beleites B, Magill J (eds) (2006) Lasers and Nuclei: Applications of Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers in Nuclear Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Segalov M, Lev-Ami T, Manevich R, et al (2009) Abstract Transformers for Thread Correlation Analysis. In: Hu Z (ed) Programming Languages and Systems: 7th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2009, Seoul, Korea, December 14-16, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 30–46

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 Geosciences.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) What Would Happen If All The Water In The World Suddenly Disappeared? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/happen-water-world-disappeared/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2010) America COMPETES Act: It Is Too Early to Evaluate Programs Long-Term Effectiveness, but Agencies Could Improve Reporting of High-Risk, High-Reward Research Priorities. 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

Ma B (2012) Improving the performance of hyperspectral target detection. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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 (2011) Indomitable Russell Values One Accolade Above the Rest. New York Times SP1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Javitt 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hu and Bush 2005; Javitt 2010).

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

Two authors: (Hu and Bush 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bird et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Abbreviation	Arab. J. Geosci.
ISSN (print)	1866-7511
ISSN (online)	1866-7538
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science