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

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

Rokas A (2013) Genetics. My oldest sister is a sea walnut? Science 342:1327–1329

A journal article with 2 authors

Evenson RE, Gollin D (2003) Assessing the impact of the green revolution, 1960 to 2000. Science 300:758–762

A journal article with 3 authors

Righton D, Metcalfe J, Connolly P (2001) Fisheries. Different behaviour of North and Irish Sea cod. Nature 411:156

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Thomas H, Bozec Y, Elkalay K, de Baar HJW (2004) Enhanced open ocean storage of CO2 from shelf sea pumping. Science 304:1005–1008

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sailor MJ (2011) Porous Silicon in Practice. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Chow JH, Wu FF, Momoh J (eds) (2005) Applied Mathematics for Restructured Electric Power Systems: Optimization, Control, and Computational Intelligence. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Yang M, Rao R (2011) Indoor Positioning Data Obstacle Avoidance and Visualization Framework Based on A* Algorithm. In: Deng H, Miao D, Lei J, Wang FL (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence: Third International Conference, AICI 2011, Taiyuan, China, September 24-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 26–33

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 Geosciences.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) International Conference Reveals Diverse Advances In Understanding Psychosis. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/international-conference-reveals-diverse-advances-in-understanding-psychosis/. 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 (1997) Health, Education and Human Services Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments. 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

Brown JD (2012) Disparity in healthcare among Black Americans in the United States, a review of the literature. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Park LS (2015) Look on the Bright Side. New York Times BR18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rokas 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Evenson and Gollin 2003; Rokas 2013).

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

Two authors: (Evenson and Gollin 2003)
Three or more authors: (Thomas et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Abbreviation	Arab. J. Geosci.
ISSN (print)	1866-7511
ISSN (online)	1866-7538
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science