How to format your references using the Journal of Taibah University for Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Taibah University for 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

[1]

M. Grayson, Science masterclass, Nature. 467 (2010) S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. von Storch, N. Stehr, Climate change in perspective, Nature. 405 (2000) 615.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.C. Grandison, M.D.W. Piper, L. Partridge, Amino-acid imbalance explains extension of lifespan by dietary restriction in Drosophila, Nature. 462 (2009) 1061–1064.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.F. Petersen, D. Befroy, S. Dufour, J. Dziura, C. Ariyan, D.L. Rothman, L. DiPietro, G.W. Cline, G.I. Shulman, Mitochondrial dysfunction in the elderly: possible role in insulin resistance, Science. 300 (2003) 1140–1142.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H.R. Denny, S.J. Butterworth, A Guide to Canine and Feline Orthopaedic Surgery, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

A. Dawar, R. de Queiroz, eds., Logic, Language, Information and Computation: 17th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2010, Brasilia, Brazil, July 6-9, 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.R. Nigmatullin, New Noninvasive Methods for ‘Reading’ of Random Sequences and Their Applications in Nanotechnology, in: D. Baleanu, Z.B. Guvenc, J.A.T. Machado (Eds.), New Trends in Nanotechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 43–56.

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 Taibah University for Science.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, Does Eating Bamboo Make It Harder For Pandas To Reproduce, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/does-eating-bamboo-make-it-harder-for-pandas-to-reproduce/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Indian Affairs: Actions Needed to Better Manage Indian School Construction Projects, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2017.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. Fisher, Suffering God, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2012.

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

[1]

C. Kelly, Lesson One: The Price the Contractor Quotes Is an Estimate, New York Times. (2007) F4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Taibah University for Science
Abbreviation	J. Taibah Univ. SCI
ISSN (print)	1658-3655
Scope

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