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

Kramer, M., 2009. Astronomy. Extreme spinning tops. Science 324, 1396–1397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tam, W.Y., Ma, C.H.E., 2014. Bipolar/rod-shaped microglia are proliferating microglia with distinct M1/M2 phenotypes. Sci. Rep. 4, 7279.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuch, B.B., Li, H., Johnson, A.D., 2008. Evolution of eukaryotic transcription circuits. Science 319, 1797–1799.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fryxell, J.M., Mosser, A., Sinclair, A.R.E., Packer, C., 2007. Group formation stabilizes predator-prey dynamics. Nature 449, 1041–1043.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balfour, A., 2012. Solomon’s Temple. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Zhang, B., Fulmer, G.W., Liu, X., Hu, W., Peng, S., Wei, B. (Eds.), 2014. International Conference on Science Education 2012 Proceedings: Science Education: Policies and Social Responsibilities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Anastassiou, G.A., Argyros, I.K., 2016. Newton-Like Procedures and Their Applications in Multivariate Fractional Calculus, in: Argyros, I.K. (Ed.), Intelligent Numerical Methods II: Applications to Multivariate Fractional Calculus, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 51–62.

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

Davis, J., 2016. The Winners And Losers At This Year’s Global Wildlife Summit [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, 1999. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: Pseudorabies in Swine and Payment of Indemnity (No. OGC-99-31). 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

Conti, M.J., 2012. The online teaching skills and best practices of virtual classroom teachers: A mixed method Delphi study (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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Ta’ang. New York Times C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kramer, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kramer, 2009; Tam and Ma, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tam and Ma, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Fryxell et al., 2007)

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