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

Smaglik P. Norway: Turning oil into science. Nature. 2002;417(6884): 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morrison SJ, Kimble J. Asymmetric and symmetric stem-cell divisions in development and cancer. Nature. 2006;441(7097): 1068–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pavlov P, Svendsen JI, Indrelid S. Human presence in the European Arctic nearly 40,000 years ago. Nature. 2001;413(6851): 64–67.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tso GHW, Reales-Calderon JA, Tan ASM, Sem X, Le GTT, Tan TG, et al. Experimental evolution of a fungal pathogen into a gut symbiont. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2018;362(6414): 589–595.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beneke D, Peters M, Glasser D, Hildebrandt D. Understanding Distillation Using Column Profile Maps. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Allen KS. Pro ASP.NET 1.1 in VB .NET: From Professional to Expert. Avery J, Basiura R, Batongbacal M, Bellinaso M, Butler M, Eide A, et al., editors. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2005. XXXIV, 1008 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Blauert J, Xiang N. Magnetic-Field Transducers. In: Xiang N, editor. Acoustics for Engineers: Troy Lectures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 55–69.

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

Hale T. Watch As The Moon ‘Photobombs’ A NASA Satellite’s View Of Earth. [Online] IFLScience. IFLScience; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-as-the-moon-photobombs-a-nasa-satellites-view-of-earth/

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. District of Columbia: More Details Needed on Plans to Integrate Computer Systems With the Family Court and Use Federal Funds. U.S. Government Printing Office. Report number: GAO-02-948, 2002 Aug.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Timko EJ. Polynomial Tuples of Commuting Isometries Constrained by 1-Dimensional Varieties. [Doctoral dissertation] [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2017.

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

Kelly R. A Repulsively Lonely Man. New York Times. 1995; 71.

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