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

Janin, J., 2008. Biochemistry. Dicey assemblies. Science 319, 165–166.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joshi, N.S., Jacks, T., 2013. Immunology. Guilty by association. Science 339, 1160–1161.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Z., Xu, B., Zhou, H.-J., 2014. Social cycling and conditional responses in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game. Sci. Rep. 4, 5830.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hanaguri, T., Kohsaka, Y., Ono, M., Maltseva, M., Coleman, P., Yamada, I., Azuma, M., Takano, M., Ohishi, K., Takagi, H., 2009. Coherence factors in a high-tc cuprate probed by quasi-particle scattering off vortices. Science 323, 923–926.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shuttleworth, W.J., 2012. Terrestrial Hydrometeorology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Manuti, A., Palma, P.D. de (Eds.), 2016. The Social Organization: Managing Human Capital through Social Media. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Swaab, D.F., 2011. Sexual Differentiation of the Human Brain and Male/Female Behaviour, in: Beets, G., Schippers, J., te Velde, E.R. (Eds.), The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies: Late Fertility and Its Consequences. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 33–47.

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

Fang, J., 2015. Populations of a Superabundant Bird Collapsed in Just 25 Years [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, 1974. Subcontract Estimate For E-2c Passive Detection Systems in Prime Contract With Grumman Aerospace Corporation (No. 093158). 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

Kinney, E.L., 2009. Isolation, identification, and antimicrobial susceptibility analysis of Enterococccus spp. and Salmonella spp. from conventional poultry farms transitioning to organic farming practices (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Crow, K., 2002. An Intersection Where “Oh, No!” Meets “Watch Out!” New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Janin, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Janin, 2008; Joshi and Jacks, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Joshi and Jacks, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Hanaguri et al., 2009)

About the journal

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