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

DeWeerdt, S., 2013. Genetics: written in blood. Nature 498, S4-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aizer, A., Currie, J., 2014. The intergenerational transmission of inequality: maternal disadvantage and health at birth. Science 344, 856–861.

A journal article with 3 authors

Navarro-González, R., McKay, C.P., Mvondo, D.N., 2001. A possible nitrogen crisis for Archaean life due to reduced nitrogen fixation by lightning. Nature 412, 61–64.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sun, P., Zheng, F., Zhu, M., Wang, K., Zhong, M., Wu, D., Zhu, H., 2014. Realizing synchronous energy harvesting and ion separation with graphene oxide membranes. Sci. Rep. 4, 5528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ratzliff, A., Unutzer, J., Katon, W., Stephens, K.A., 2015. Integrated Care. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bahadir, A.M., Duca, G. (Eds.), 2009. The Role of Ecological Chemistry in Pollution Research and Sustainable Development, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, J., Jeong, H., Loy, M.M.T., Du, S., 2013. Observation of Optical Precursors in Cold Atoms, in: Jeong, H., Loy, M., Du, S. (Eds.), Optical Precursors: From Classical Waves to Single Photons, SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Singapore, pp. 45–64.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Researchers Discover How Pac-Man Frogs Are Able To Hunt Large Prey [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-discover-how-pac-man-frogs-are-able-hunt-large-prey/ (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, 1992. Student Loans: Direct Loans Could Save Billions in First 5 Years With Proper Implementation (No. HRD-93-27). 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

Murillo, K., 2010. An analysis of California community college budget policy key components in multicollege districts (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

BRUCE LAMBERT; Linda Saslow contributed reporting for this article, 2005. County Chief Sets Sights on School Tax. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeWeerdt, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Aizer and Currie, 2014; DeWeerdt, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Aizer and Currie, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al., 2014)

About the journal

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