How to format your references using the Baghdad Science Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Baghdad Science Journal. 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

Irvine R. Cell signaling. The art of the soluble. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2007;316(5826): 845–846.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheng G, Zheng S-Y. Construction of a high-performance magnetic enzyme nanosystem for rapid tryptic digestion. Scientific reports. 2014;4: 6947.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cramer P, Bushnell DA, Kornberg RD. Structural basis of transcription: RNA polymerase II at 2.8 angstrom resolution. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2001;292(5523): 1863–1876.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hung W-Y, Fang G-C, Lin S-W, Cheng S-H, Wong K-T, Kuo T-Y, et al. The first tandem, all-exciplex-based WOLED. Scientific reports. 2014;4: 5161.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anichini G, Carraro F, Geslin P, Guille-Escuret G. Technicity vs Scientificity. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Yamamoto S, editor. Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge in Context: 17th International Conference, HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XXVI, 689 p. 404 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Borghese F, Denti P, Saija R. Transition Matrix of Single and Aggregated Spheres. In: Denti P, Saija R, editors. Scattering from Model Nonspherical Particles: Theory and Applications to Environmental Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 109–134.

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 Baghdad Science Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. Tropical Worms: They Infect A Third Of The Planet, So Why Aren’t We Doing More? [Online] IFLScience. IFLScience; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tropical-worms-they-infect-third-planet-so-why-aren-t-we-doing-more/

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. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s First-Year Implementation of the Federal Manager’s Financial Integrity Act. U.S. Government Printing Office. Report number: NSIAD-84-100, 1984 May.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Mete RJ. Can STEM initiatives be social justice oriented: An analysis of urban school reform via smaller learning communities. [Doctoral dissertation] [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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

Leland J. Was It ‘Normal New York City Conversation’? Did Trump Speak Fast? New York Times. 2017; A23.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Baghdad Science Journal
ISSN (print)	2078-8665
ISSN (online)	2411-7986
Scope