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

Coe H. Atmospheric science. Aerosol chemistry and the Deepwater Horizon spill. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2011;331(6022): 1273–1274.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang G, Zhou L. Zwitterionic versus canonical amino acids over the various defects in zeolites: a two-layer ONIOM calculation. Scientific reports. 2014;4: 6594.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li H, Li WX, Ding SW. Induction and suppression of RNA silencing by an animal virus. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2002;296(5571): 1319–1321.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Amor R, Mahajan S, Amos WB, McConnell G. Standing-wave-excited multiplanar fluorescence in a laser scanning microscope reveals 3D information on red blood cells. Scientific reports. 2014;4: 7359.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

De Vos A. Reversible Computing. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Yao ZH. Computational Methods in Engineering & Science: Proceedings of “Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science X” Aug. 21–23, 2006, Sanya, China. Yuan MW, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. XIV, 339 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Chia CK, Hopkinson M. Catastrophic Optical Damage in Quantum Dot Lasers. In: Wang ZM, editor. Quantum Dot Devices. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. p. 93–108.

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. How To Predict The Next Plant Disease Epidemic. [Online] IFLScience. IFLScience; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-predict-next-plant-disease-epidemic/

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. Federal Student Loans: Impact of Loan Limit Increases on College Prices Is Difficult to Discern. U.S. Government Printing Office. Report number: GAO-14-7, 2014 Feb.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sonn AC. Institutions’ needs and donors’ dreams: A case study of successful student affairs fundraising collaboration at three private research universities. [Doctoral dissertation] [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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

Hubbard B. Saudi Prince Is Executed for Murder. New York Times. 2016; A9.

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