How to format your references using the Karbala International Journal of Modern Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Karbala International Journal of Modern Science. 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

[1]

G.F. Bignami, Astronomy. Gamma-ray astronomy with INTEGRAL, Science. 298 (2002) 1560–1561.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W. Junge, N. Nelson, Structural biology. Nature’s rotary electromotors, Science. 308 (2005) 642–644.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Ren, K.R. Rajashankar, D.J. Patel, Fluoride ion encapsulation by Mg2+ ions and phosphates in a fluoride riboswitch, Nature. 486 (2012) 85–89.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.A. Heller, E.S. Jeng, T.-K. Yeung, B.M. Martinez, A.E. Moll, J.B. Gastala, M.S. Strano, Optical detection of DNA conformational polymorphism on single-walled carbon nanotubes, Science. 311 (2006) 508–511.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.A.C. Broekaert, Analytical Atomic Spectrometry with Flames and Plasmas, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

R.D. Urman, J.M. Ehrenfeld, eds., Physicians’ Pathways to Non-Traditional Careers and Leadership Opportunities, Springer, New York, NY, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Bodo, V. Migliorati, Theoretical Description of Ionic Liquids, in: R. Caminiti, L. Gontrani (Eds.), The Structure of Ionic Liquids, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 127–148.

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 Karbala International Journal of Modern Science.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Enormous Magma Chamber Discovered Deep Below Yellowstone, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/massive-magma-chamber-discovered-deep-below-yellowstone/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Need for Improved Coordination of Federally Assisted Student Aid Programs in Institutions of Higher Education, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1972.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.J. Bratton, Modeling and Control of Heterogeneous Tumors Under Chemotherapy, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2014.

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

[1]

S.M. Novick, When the Brew Is as Crucial as the Bean, New York Times. (2015) LI8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Karbala International Journal of Modern Science
ISSN (print)	2405-609X
Scope

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