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

Barrett, T.A., 2012. Developmental biology. Intestinal wound healing requires a Wnt balancing act. Science 338, 51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jiang, J.-H., John, S., 2014. Photonic architectures for equilibrium high-temperature Bose-Einstein condensation in dichalcogenide monolayers. Sci. Rep. 4, 7432.

A journal article with 3 authors

Phillips, N.R., Sprouse, M.L., Roby, R.K., 2014. Simultaneous quantification of mitochondrial DNA copy number and deletion ratio: a multiplex real-time PCR assay. Sci. Rep. 4, 3887.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Oremland, R.S., Kulp, T.R., Blum, J.S., Hoeft, S.E., Baesman, S., Miller, L.G., Stolz, J.F., 2005. A microbial arsenic cycle in a salt-saturated, extreme environment. Science 308, 1305–1308.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Natsuno, T., 2005. i-Mode Strategy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Du, D.-Z., Pardalos, P.M. (Eds.), 2005. Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization: Supplement Volume B. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Carlson, D.L., 2012. Life Among the Ruins, in: Carlson, D.L. (Ed.), Volunteers of America. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 51–67.

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., 2014. In The Ocean, The Most Harmful Plastic Is Too Small To See [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, 1991. Forest Service Is Making Progress in Developing a Nationwide Geographic Information System (No. T-IMTEC-91-11). 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

Wheaton, H.F., 2012. The Relationship between Team Captains’ Leadership Styles and Team Performance (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. Film Series. New York Times C23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barrett, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Barrett, 2012; Jiang and John, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Jiang and John, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Oremland et al., 2005)

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