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

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

Hare, J.D., 2012. Ecology. How insect herbivores drive the evolution of plants. Science 338, 50–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bard, E., Rickaby, R.E.M., 2009. Migration of the subtropical front as a modulator of glacial climate. Nature 460, 380–383.

A journal article with 3 authors

Savaldi-Goldstein, S., Peto, C., Chory, J., 2007. The epidermis both drives and restricts plant shoot growth. Nature 446, 199–202.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhao, J., Ye, H., Huang, K., Chen, Z.N., Li, B., Qiu, C.-W., 2014. Manipulation of acoustic focusing with an active and configurable planar metasurface transducer. Sci. Rep. 4, 6257.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vakkur, N.V., Herrera, Z.J., 2013. Corporate Governance Regulation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lajtha, A., Baker, G., Dunn, S., Holt, A. (Eds.), 2007. Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Practical Neurochemistry Methods. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Rim, K., 2007. Paradigm Shift and Challenges for Korean Industry: Case Study of Samsung, in: Mahlich, J.C., Pascha, W. (Eds.), Innovation and Technology in Korea: Challenges of a Newly Advanced Economy. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, pp. 59–70.

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 - Engineering Sciences.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2017. How Climate May Have Shaped Our Noses [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-climate-may-have-shaped-our-noses/ (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, 1997. School Facilities: Reported Condition and Costs to Repair Schools Funded by Bureau of Indian Affairs (No. HEHS-98-47). 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

Alvarez, D.J., 2010. Piloted simulation study comparing classical and robust flight control design methods (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

Greenhouse, L., 2006. Justices Curb Postal Service’s Immunity From Lawsuits. New York Times A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hare, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bard and Rickaby, 2009; Hare, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bard and Rickaby, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of King Saud University - Engineering Sciences
ISSN (print)	1018-3639
Scope	General Engineering