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

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

Rohn, J., 2011. Give postdocs a career, not empty promises. Nature 471, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gurnett, D.A., Kurth, W.S., 2008. Intense plasma waves at and near the solar wind termination shock. Nature 454, 78–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rocha, P.P., Chaumeil, J., Skok, J.A., 2013. Molecular biology. Finding the right partner in a 3D genome. Science 342, 1333–1334.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

McDonald, D., Wu, L., Bohks, S.M., KewalRamani, V.N., Unutmaz, D., Hope, T.J., 2003. Recruitment of HIV and its receptors to dendritic cell-T cell junctions. Science 300, 1295–1297.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Makower, T., 2014. Touching the City. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Gewertz, B.L., 2015. The Best Medicine: A Physician’s Guide to Effective Leadership. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Martínez-Otzeta, J.M., Ibarguren, A., Ansuategi, A., Susperregi, L., 2009. Laser Based People Following Behaviour in an Emergency Environment, in: Xie, M., Xiong, Y., Xiong, C., Liu, H., Hu, Z. (Eds.), Intelligent Robotics and Applications: Second International Conference, ICIRA 2009, Singapore, December 16-18, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–42.

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 - Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. New Calculation Suggests China’s Greenhouse Emissions Have Been Overestimated [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-calculation-suggests-china-s-greenhouse-emissions-have-been-overestimated/ (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, 1981. Comments on Proposed FPR Subpart (No. B-203515). 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

Moua, P., 2009. Differential functions of the kinesin-1 tail in Drosophila melanogaster transport processes (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

SOPHIA OKUN TRACY; Sophia Okun Tracy lives in New Rochelle, 1987. TATTERED REMINDERS OF WORDS TO INSPIRE A CHILD. New York Times 11WC28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rohn, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gurnett and Kurth, 2008; Rohn, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Gurnett and Kurth, 2008)
Three or more authors: (McDonald et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of King Saud University - Science
Abbreviation	J. King Saud Univ. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1018-3647
Scope	Multidisciplinary