How to format your references using the World Applied Sciences Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Applied Sciences Journal (WASJ). 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

Shi, P.-Y., 2014. Structural biology. Unraveling a flavivirus enigma. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6173): 849–850.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gagliardi, L. and B.O. Roos, 2005. Quantum chemical calculations show that the uranium molecule U2 has a quintuple bond. Nature, 433(7028): 848–851.

A journal article with 3 authors

Su, W., C.R. Bagshaw and G.A. Burley, 2013. Addressable and unidirectional energy transfer along a DNA three-way junction programmed by pyrrole-imidazole polyamides. Scientific Reports, 3: 1883.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jones, K.L., A.S. Adekola, D.W. Bardayan, J.C. Blackmon, K.Y. Chae, K.A. Chipps, J.A. Cizewski, L. Erikson, C. Harlin, R. Hatarik, R. Kapler, R.L. Kozub, J.F. Liang, R. Livesay, Z. Ma, B.H. Moazen, C.D. Nesaraja, F.M. Nunes, S.D. Pain, N.P. Patterson, D. Shapira, J.F. Shriner Jr, M.S. Smith, T.P. Swan and J.S. Thomas, 2010. The magic nature of (132)Sn explored through the single-particle states of (133)Sn. Nature, 465(7297): 454–457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Seyfried, T.N., 2012. Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Heck, A., ed., 2005. The Multinational History of Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Yamamoto, Y., 2012. Disputed Sentence Suggestion towards Credibility-Oriented Web Search, In Web Technologies and Applications: 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2012, Kunming, China, April 11-13, 2012. Proceedings, Q.Z. Sheng, G. Wang, C.S. Jensen, G. Xu, eds., Springer, pp: 34–45.

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 World Applied Sciences Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E., https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/marijuana-may-affect-fertility-young-men/. 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

Government Accountability Office, 2000. Federal Communications Commission: Narrowband Personal Communications Services and Competitive Bidding. 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

Dizon, F., Treatment and Return to Play of Three Runners with Bone Stress Injury and/or Other Traits of a Male-Version of the Female Athlete Triad: A Case Series, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

Pilon, M., 2014. Hands Speak Louder Than Words. New York Times, B11.

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	World Applied Sciences Journal
Abbreviation	World Appl. Sci. J.
ISSN (print)	1818-4952
ISSN (online)	1991-6426
Scope	Multidisciplinary