How to format your references using the Arabian Journal of Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Arabian Journal of Chemistry. 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

Farr, N.L., 2000. Questioning placebo controls. Science 288, 1747c.

A journal article with 2 authors

Strausberg, R.L., Schreiber, S.L., 2003. From knowing to controlling: a path from genomics to drugs using small molecule probes. Science 300, 294–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu, Y., Lee, C.C., Ribbe, M.W., 2011. Extending the carbon chain: hydrocarbon formation catalyzed by vanadium/molybdenum nitrogenases. Science 333, 753–755.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Posson, D.J., Ge, P., Miller, C., Bezanilla, F., Selvin, P.R., 2005. Small vertical movement of a K+ channel voltage sensor measured with luminescence energy transfer. Nature 436, 848–851.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wuestenberg, K., 2012. Clinical Small Animal Care. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Ames, Iowa, USA.

An edited book

Nolte, G. (Ed.), 2009. Peace through International Law: The Role of the International Law Commission. A Colloquium at the Occasion of its Sixtieth Anniversary, Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Feng, H., Meng, W., 2016. An Analysis of Definitions of Poly-meaning Sports’ Entries Based on Generative Lexicon Theory, in: Dong, M., Lin, J., Tang, X. (Eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 17th Workshop, CLSW 2016, Singapore, Singapore, May 20–22, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 51–57.

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 of Chemistry.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Watch A Man See For The First Time In 33 Years, Thanks To His New Bionic Eye [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bionic-eye-restores-sight-lost-30-years-ago/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2007. Information Technology: DHS Needs to Fully Define and Implement Policies and Procedures for Effectively Managing Investments (No. GAO-07-424). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shimpeno, P.D., 2010. Consumed: Simple Choices, Complex Problems (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Apuzzo, M., Huetteman, E., 2017. White House Knew Flynn Lied, Ex-Official Testifies. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Farr, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Farr, 2000; Strausberg and Schreiber, 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Strausberg and Schreiber, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Posson et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Arabian Journal of Chemistry
Abbreviation	Arab. J. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1878-5352
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry