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

Wigley, T.M.L., 2005. The climate change commitment. Science 307, 1766–1769.

A journal article with 2 authors

Middelburg, J.J., Meysman, F.J.R., 2007. Ocean science. Burial at sea. Science 316, 1294–1295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zákány, J., Kmita, M., Duboule, D., 2004. A dual role for Hox genes in limb anterior-posterior asymmetry. Science 304, 1669–1672.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wittkopp, P.J., Stewart, E.E., Arnold, L.L., Neidert, A.H., Haerum, B.K., Thompson, E.M., Akhras, S., Smith-Winberry, G., Shefner, L., 2009. Intraspecific polymorphism to interspecific divergence: genetics of pigmentation in Drosophila. Science 326, 540–544.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes, B.K., 2015. Exercising Influence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kagen, L.J. (Ed.), 2009. The Inflammatory Myopathies. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Wiegandt, E., 2008. From Principles to Action: Incentives to Enforce Common Property Water Management, in: Wiegandt, E. (Ed.), Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 63–79.

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

Evans, K., 2016. A Plastic Surgeon Used A Golden Mathematical Ratio To “Prove” This Is The Most Beautiful Person In The World [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-plastic-surgeon-used-a-golden-mathematical-ratio-to-prove-this-is-the-most-beautiful-person-in-the-world/ (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, 1975. Administration of the Emergency School Aid Act by OE (No. B-164031(1)). 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

Gates, D.A., 2017. Best Practices and Strategies for Financial Literacy in Faith-Based Organizations (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

George, T., 2016. Thumbelina’s Secret Architect. New York Times A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wigley, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Middelburg and Meysman, 2007; Wigley, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Middelburg and Meysman, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Wittkopp et al., 2009)

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