How to format your references using the Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Basic and Applied Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Basic and Applied Sciences. 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	Download the output style file
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

Famulok, M., 2004. Molecular biology. RNAs turn on in tandem. Science 306, 233–234.

A journal article with 2 authors

Minetti, A.E., Ardigó, L.P., 2002. Halteres used in ancient Olympic long jump. Nature 420, 141–142.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, S., Hashimoto, N., Ohnuki, S., 2013. Hydrogen-induced change in core structures of {110}[111] edge and {110}[111] screw dislocations in iron. Sci. Rep. 3, 2760.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vander Heiden, M.G., Locasale, J.W., Swanson, K.D., Sharfi, H., Heffron, G.J., Amador-Noguez, D., Christofk, H.R., Wagner, G., Rabinowitz, J.D., Asara, J.M., Cantley, L.C., 2010. Evidence for an alternative glycolytic pathway in rapidly proliferating cells. Science 329, 1492–1499.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maksoud, M.A., 2017. Quick Reference to Dental Implant Surgery. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Thalheim, B., Schewe, K.-D., Prinz, A., Buchberger, B. (Eds.), 2015. Correct Software in Web Applications and Web Services, Texts & Monographs in Symbolic Computation, A Series of the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Andreescu, T., Andrica, D., 2014. Olympiad-Caliber Problems, in: Andrica, D. (Ed.), Complex Numbers from A to ... Z. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, pp. 175–275.

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 the Association of Arab Universities for Basic and Applied Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Water, Water, Everywhere – Where To Drink In The Solar System [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/water-water-everywhere-where-drink-solar-system/ (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, 1998. Charter Schools: Use of Start-Up Grant Funds (No. HEHS-98-150R). 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

Chavez, T.M., 2008. A quasi-experimental study of the relationship between school structure and student outcomes (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Hubbard, B., Searcey, D., Casey, N., 2016. As Exxon Head, Tillerson Put Company’s Needs Over U.S. Interests. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Famulok, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Famulok, 2004; Minetti and Ardigó, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Minetti and Ardigó, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Vander Heiden et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Basic and Applied Sciences
ISSN (print)	1815-3852
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Chemistry General Energy General Environmental Science General Materials Science General Mathematics