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:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Russo, E., 2004. New lease of life for tropical medicine. Nature 428, 966–967.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maechler, P., Wollheim, C.B., 2001. Mitochondrial function in normal and diabetic beta-cells. Nature 414, 807–812.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vandermeer, J., Perfecto, I., Philpott, S.M., 2008. Clusters of ant colonies and robust criticality in a tropical agroecosystem. Nature 451, 457–459.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hattar, S., Liao, H.W., Takao, M., Berson, D.M., Yau, K.W., 2002. Melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cells: architecture, projections, and intrinsic photosensitivity. Science 295, 1065–1070.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, D.A., 2014. Interpreting Land Records. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pâques, L.E. (Ed.), 2013. Forest Tree Breeding in Europe: Current State-of-the-Art and Perspectives, Managing Forest Ecosystems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Schaathun, H.G., Cohen, G.D., 2005. A Trellis-Based Bound on (2,1)-Separating Codes, in: Smart, N.P. (Ed.), Cryptography and Coding: 10th IMA International Conference, Cirencester, UK, December 19-21, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 59–67.

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 Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. Virgin Galactic Flies Again Two Years After Devastating Crash [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, 1986. ADP Acquisitions: SSA Should Limit ADP Procurements Until Further Testing Is Performed (No. IMTEC-86-31). 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

Khatib, E., 2010. A phenomenological study on the potential impact of implementing information systems in midsize corporations (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

Robertson, C., 2017. No Stranger to Flooding, One Town Suffers Again. New York Times A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russo, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Maechler and Wollheim, 2001; Russo, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Maechler and Wollheim, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Hattar et al., 2002)

About the journal

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