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

Glass, R.I., 2015. Brain disorders across the lifespan. Nature 527, S150.

A journal article with 2 authors

Denicourt, C., Dowdy, S.F., 2004. Medicine. Targeting apoptotic pathways in cancer cells. Science 305, 1411–1413.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schaller, T., Goujon, C., Malim, M.H., 2012. AIDS/HIV. HIV interplay with SAMHD1. Science 335, 1313–1314.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, H., Wang, J., Mor, G., Sklar, J., 2008. A neoplastic gene fusion mimics trans-splicing of RNAs in normal human cells. Science 321, 1357–1361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dacey, J.S., Fiore, L.B., Brion-Meisels, S., 2016. Your Child’s Social and Emotional Well-Being. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hawes, J.M., Glisan, G.B. (Eds.), 2015. Proceedings of the 1987 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Pinsker, R., 2007. A Theoretical Framework for Examining the Corporate Adoption Decision Involving XBRL as a Continuous Disclosure Reporting Technology, in: Felden, C., Piechocki, M. (Eds.), New Dimensions of Business Reporting and XBRL. DUV, Wiesbaden, pp. 73–98.

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

Andrews, R., 2015. Plants’ Chemical Warfare Mechanism Revealed For First Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1991. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Medium Range System Components Do Not Fit (No. NSIAD-91-2). 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

Fair, C.L., 2012. Structure of the Roberts Mountains allochthon in the Three Bar Ranch Quadrangle, Roberts Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada (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

St. John Kelly, E., 1994. The Hatman Closeth. New York Times 1310.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Glass, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Denicourt and Dowdy, 2004; Glass, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Denicourt and Dowdy, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2008)

About the journal

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