How to format your references using the Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Smaglik, P., 2002. Building cooperation New York. Nature 419, 4–5.
A journal article with 2 authors
Richards, T.A., Cavalier-Smith, T., 2005. Myosin domain evolution and the primary divergence of eukaryotes. Nature 436, 1113–1118.
A journal article with 3 authors
Sillanpää, M.A., Park, J.I., Simmonds, R.W., 2007. Coherent quantum state storage and transfer between two phase qubits via a resonant cavity. Nature 449, 438–442.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Xiong, J.P., Stehle, T., Diefenbach, B., Zhang, R., Dunker, R., Scott, D.L., Joachimiak, A., Goodman, S.L., Arnaout, M.A., 2001. Crystal structure of the extracellular segment of integrin alpha Vbeta3. Science 294, 339–345.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Broekaert, J.A.C., 2005. Analytical Atomic Spectrometry with Flames and Plasmas. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.
An edited book
Angelini, C. (Ed.), 2016. Acquired Neuromuscular Disorders: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
A chapter in an edited book
Saakov, V.S., Drapkin, V.Z., Krivchenko, A.I., Rozengart, E.V., Bogachev, Y.V., Knyazev, M.N., 2013. EPR Spectroscopy for Solution of Some Scientific Real-World Problems in Biology, Medicine and Ecology, in: Drapkin, V.Z., Krivchenko, A.I., Rozengart, E.V., Bogachev, Y.V., Knyazev, M.N. (Eds.), Derivative Spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectroscopy for Ecological and Biological Questions. Springer, Vienna, pp. 301–348.

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 Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences.

Blog post
Andrew, E., 2015. Exploring our Moon Today to Learn More About Earth’s Youth Billions of Years Ago [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/exploring-our-moon-today-learn-more-about-earth-s-youth-billions-years-ago/ (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. Comments on Energy Research and Development Administration’s Proposed Arrangement for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Demonstration Plant Project (No. RED-75-361). 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
Pelser, C.R., 2010. Interpretation of Aaron Copland’s Duo for Flute and Piano (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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
Belson, K., 2012. Olympic Ideal Takes Beating In Badminton. 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 (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Richards and Cavalier-Smith, 2005; Smaglik, 2002).

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

  • Two authors: (Richards and Cavalier-Smith, 2005)
  • Three or more authors: (Xiong et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences
ISSN (print)1658-077X
Scope

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