How to format your references using the Journal of King Saud University - Languages and Translation citation style

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

Bowie, J.U., 2005. Solving the membrane protein folding problem. Nature 438, 581–589.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boyd, R.W., Gauthier, D.J., 2009. Controlling the velocity of light pulses. Science 326, 1074–1077.

A journal article with 3 authors

Laxon, S., Peacock, N., Smith, D., 2003. High interannual variability of sea ice thickness in the Arctic region. Nature 425, 947–950.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wallace, B.D., Wang, H., Lane, K.T., Scott, J.E., Orans, J., Koo, J.S., Venkatesh, M., Jobin, C., Yeh, L.-A., Mani, S., Redinbo, M.R., 2010. Alleviating cancer drug toxicity by inhibiting a bacterial enzyme. Science 330, 831–835.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garg, V.K., 2005. Concurrent and Distributed Computing in Java. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Freddi, A., 2015. Experimental Stress Analysis for Materials and Structures: Stress Analysis Models for Developing Design Methodologies, Springer Series in Solid and Structural Mechanics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, R., Wolpert, D.H., Bono, J., Backhaus, S., Bent, R., Tracey, B., 2013. Counter-Factual Reinforcement Learning: How to Model Decision-Makers That Anticipate the Future, in: Guy, T.V., Karny, M., Wolpert, D. (Eds.), Decision Making and Imperfection, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 101–128.

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 - Languages and Translation.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Dancing Dwarf Galaxies Mystify Astronomers [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/dancing-dwarf-galaxies-mystify-astronomers/ (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. Credit Cards: Marketing to College Students Appears to Have Declined (No. GAO-14-225). 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

Van Vlack, K.A., 2012. Puaxant tuvip: Powerlands Southern Paiute cultural landscapes and pilgrimage trails (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Smith, B., 2017. Why BuzzFeed Published the Dossier. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bowie, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bowie, 2005; Boyd and Gauthier, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Boyd and Gauthier, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wallace et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of King Saud University - Languages and Translation
ISSN (print)	2210-8319
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