How to format your references using the Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences. 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

Jasanoff, S., 2007. Technologies of humility. Nature 450, 33.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ize, B., Palmer, T., 2006. Microbiology. Mycobacteria’s export strategy. Science 313, 1583–1584.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bania, T.M., Rood, R.T., Balser, D.S., 2002. The cosmological density of baryons from observations of 3He+ in the Milky Way. Nature 415, 54–57.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Amelung, F., Jónsson, S., Zebker, H., Segall, P., 2000. Widespread uplift and “trapdoor” faulting on Galápagos volcanoes observed with radar interferometry. Nature 407, 993–996.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nicholls, D.L., Piergrossi, J.C., Gibertoni, C. de S., Daniel, M.A., 2013. Psychoanalytic Thinking in Occupational Therapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Alexandrov, V.N., Albada, G.D. van, Sloot, P.M.A., Dongarra, J. (Eds.), 2006. Computational Science – ICCS 2006: 6th International Conference, Reading, UK, May 28-31, 2006, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kaushika, N.D., Reddy, K.S., Kaushik, K., 2016. Conventional Energy and Power System, in: Reddy, K.S., Kaushik, K. (Eds.), Sustainable Energy and the Environment: A Clean Technology Approach. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 43–60.

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 Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Crows Understand Displacement Better Than Six Year Olds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crows-understand-displacement-better-six-year-olds/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2014. Human Capital: Agencies Should More Fully Evaluate the Costs and Benefits of Executive Training (No. GAO-14-132). 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

Immaneni, R.N., 2015. An efficient approach to machine learning based text classification through distributed computing (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Feeney, K., 2009. Eating at the Mega-Market. New York Times NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jasanoff, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Ize and Palmer, 2006; Jasanoff, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Ize and Palmer, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Amelung et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences
ISSN (print)	1319-1578
Scope	General Computer Science