How to format your references using the Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Lawler, A.: Archaeology. America’s lost city. Science. 334, 1618–1623 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Poucet, B., Sargolini, F.: Neuroscience. A trace of your place. Science. 340, 35–36 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Attardo, A., Fitzgerald, J.E., Schnitzer, M.J.: Impermanence of dendritic spines in live adult CA1 hippocampus. Nature. 523, 592–596 (2015)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Meyers, D., Mukherjee, S., Cheng, J.-G., Middey, S., Zhou, J.-S., Goodenough, J.B., Gray, B.A., Freeland, J.W., Saha-Dasgupta, T., Chakhalian, J.: Zhang-Rice physics and anomalous copper states in A-site ordered perovskites. Sci. Rep. 3, 1834 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kadane, J.B., Schum, D.A.: A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence: Kadane/A Probabilistic. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (1997)

An edited book

Feldman, T., Franzen, O., Low, R., Rogers, J., Yeo, K.K. eds: Atlas of Percutaneous Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair. Springer, London (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Onderwater, C.J.G.: Light ion EDM search in magnetic storage rings. In: Dilling, J., Comyn, M., Thompson, J., and Gwinner, G. (eds.) TCP 2006: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics (TCP 2006) held in Parksville, Canada, 3–8 September, 2006. pp. 35–40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)

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 Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Middle Eastern Organization Requests First Ever Withdrawal From The “Doomsday” Seed Vault, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/middle-eastern-organization-requests-first-ever-withdrawal-doomsday-seed-vault/

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: Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2003)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Crosby, W.O.: ATI v. Colorado: How the Commerce Clause Provides Guidance at the Confluence of Energy, Environmental, and Constitutional Law, (2013)

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

Hubbard, B., Sanger, D.E.: 3 Nations Meet for Syria Talks, Excluding U.S, (2016)

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	Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	Arab. J. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1319-8025
ISSN (online)	2191-4281
Scope	Multidisciplinary