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

Blanke, S.R., 2009. Cell biology. Expanding functionality within the looking-glass universe. Science 325, 1505–1506.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pyle, J., Harris, N., 2013. Joe Farman (1930-2013). Nature 498, 435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zou, H., Zindler, A., Niu, Y., 2002. Constraints on melt movement beneath the East Pacific Rise from 230Th-238U disequilibrium. Science 295, 107–110.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Watts, P.C., Buley, K.R., Sanderson, S., Boardman, W., Ciofi, C., Gibson, R., 2006. Parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons. Nature 444, 1021–1022.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinstein, S., 2009. The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gisi, U., Chet, I., Gullino, M.L. (Eds.), 2009. Recent Developments in Management of Plant Diseases, Plant Pathology in the 21st Century, Contributions to the 9th International Congress. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Kantarci, F., Mihmanli, İ., MacLennan, G.T., 2013. Neoplasms of the Spermatic Cord and Testicular Adnexae, in: Dogra, V.S., MacLennan, G.T. (Eds.), Genitourinary Radiology: Male Genital Tract, Adrenal and Retroperitoneum: The Pathologic Basis. Springer, London, pp. 95–105.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. The Big Sleep: Science Is Waking Up To The Curious Story Of Narcolepsy [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/big-sleep-science-waking-curious-story-narcolepsy/ (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, 2004. Pipeline Safety: Management of the Office of Pipeline Safety’s Enforcement Program Needs Further Strengthening (No. GAO-04-801). 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

Moore, A.M., 2010. Assessing the demand for simplified stormwater modeling tools within the design profession to facilitate the adoption of sustainable stormwater practices (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

This story was reported by C.J. Chivers, Arvedlund, E.E., Kishkovsky, S., Chivers, W. by M., 2004. Editor’s Death Raises Questions About Change in Russia. New York Times 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blanke, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Blanke, 2009; Pyle and Harris, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Pyle and Harris, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Watts et al., 2006)

About the journal

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