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

Dresser, R., 2000. Weighing the benefits of new Alzheimer’s treatments. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5481): 869b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eaton, D.W. and A. Frederiksen, 2007. Seismic evidence for convection-driven motion of the North American plate. Nature, 446(7134): 428–431.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bowman, D., G. King and P. Tapponnier, 2003. Slip partitioning by elastoplastic propagation of oblique slip at depth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5622): 1121–1123.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rieseberg, L.H., O. Raymond, D.M. Rosenthal, Z. Lai, K. Livingstone, T. Nakazato, J.L. Durphy, A.E. Schwarzbach, L.A. Donovan and C. Lexer, 2003. Major ecological transitions in wild sunflowers facilitated by hybridization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5637): 1211–1216.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaschke, M., K.-H. Donnerhacke and M.S. Rill, 2014. Optical Devices in Ophthalmology and Optometry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Zhu, Q., J. Gould, Y. Li and C. Ma, eds., 2015. Rainwater Harvesting for Agriculture and Water Supply. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Janke, W., 2007. Introduction to Simulation Techniques, In Ageing and the Glass Transition, M. Henkel, M. Pleimling, R. Sanctuary, eds., Springer, pp: 207–260.

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

Carpineti, A., https://www.iflscience.com/physics/particle-purely-made-nuclear-force-might-have-been-discovered/. 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, 1997. Airfield Pavements. 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

Hughes, L.L., The principalship: Preparation programs and the self-efficacy of principals, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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

B Y Robert Kelly;, who teaches at Bard College, is a Poet Whose, ’ ’not This Island Music and ’ ’ Will be Published, 1986. A LOVE AFFAIR WITH SILENCE. New York Times, 721.

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