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

Koentges G (2010) Journal club. A genomic systems biologist muses on how shared DNA mistakes reveal shared cellular ancestry. Nature 467:255

A journal article with 2 authors

Nodine MD, Bartel DP (2012) Maternal and paternal genomes contribute equally to the transcriptome of early plant embryos. Nature 482:94–97

A journal article with 3 authors

Antonioni A, Sanchez A, Tomassini M (2014) Global information and mobility support coordination among humans. Sci Rep 4:6458

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hauert C, Traulsen A, Brandt H, et al (2007) Via freedom to coercion: the emergence of costly punishment. Science 316:1905–1907

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Subramanian MN (2017) Polymer Blends and Composites. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Mulser P (2010) High Power Laser-Matter Interaction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Arndt M, Berns K (2012) Mobile Robots in Smart Environments: The Current Situation. In: Levi P, Zweigle O, Häußermann K, Eckstein B (eds) Autonomous Mobile Systems 2012: 22. Fachgespräch Stuttgart, 26. bis 28. September 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 39–47

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

Andrew E (2014) Water Vapor Detected in Exoplanet’s Atmosphere. In: IFLScience. 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 (1990) FAA Encountering Problems in Acquiring Major Automated Systems. 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

Buquiran ES (2014) Factors affecting members’ retention in Toastmasters International. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Bromwich JE (2017) Real-Life Harvey and Irma Marvel at the Hurricanes. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koentges 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Koentges 2010; Nodine and Bartel 2012).

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

Two authors: (Nodine and Bartel 2012)
Three or more authors: (Hauert et al. 2007)

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

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