How to format your references using the Tsaqafah citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tsaqafah. 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

Monastersky, Richard. vol. 460, no. 7253. 2009, “Shooting for the moon”, Nature. pp. 314–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Benoist, Christophe and Nir Hacohen. vol. 332, no. 6030. 2011, “Immunology. Flow cytometry, amped up”, Science (New York, N.Y.). pp. 677–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chesler, E.J., S.L. Rodriguez-Zas, and J.S. Mogil. vol. 294, no. 5551. 2001, “In silico mapping of mouse quantitative trait loci”, Science (New York, N.Y.). p. 2423.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chin, J.K. et al. vol. 443, no. 7114. 2006, “Evidence for superfluidity of ultracold fermions in an optical lattice”, Nature. pp. 961–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voigtman, Edward. 2017, Limits of Detection in Chemical Analysis, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Murthy, C.R. ed. by P.C. Sinha and Y.R. Rao. 2008, Modelling and Monitoring of Coastal Marine Processes, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Jimbo, Kazuki, Hiroya Takamura, and Manabu Okumura. ed. by Hiromitsu Hattori et al. 2009, “Solving Crossword Puzzles Using Extended Potts Model”, in New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI 2008 Conference and Workshops, Asahikawa, Japan, June 11-13, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 39–47.

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 Tsaqafah.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 20 Jul 2016, “This Harpoon Is Being ‘Fired’ Into People’s Hearts To Save Their Lives”, IFLScience, IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/harpoon-fired-peoples-hearts-save-lives/, accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office. 2014, NOAA Aircraft: Aging Fleet and Future Challenges Underscore the Need for a Capital Asset Plan, no. GAO-14-566, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moore, Kelsey C. 2014, “Coping strategies for adolescents whose parents have cancer: A curriculum”, Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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, Ken and Mary Pilon. 1 Jul 2012, “Felix’s 200-Meter Win May Help Settle the 100”, New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Tsaqafah
Abbreviation	TSAQAFAH
ISSN (print)	1411-0334
ISSN (online)	2460-0008
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