How to format your references using the Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences. 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

Ghosh, A., 2002. Neurobiology. Learning more about NMDA receptor regulation. Science 295, 449–451.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brodribb, T.J., McAdam, S.A.M., 2011. Passive origins of stomatal control in vascular plants. Science 331, 582–585.

A journal article with 3 authors

Katsanis, S.H., Javitt, G., Hudson, K., 2008. Public health. A case study of personalized medicine. Science 320, 53–54.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dai, Y., Wang, H., Yang, T., Ren, W., Zhang, Z., 2014. Flower-like dynamics of coupled Skyrmions with dual resonant modes by a single-frequency microwave magnetic field. Sci. Rep. 4, 6153.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Searle, S.R., 1997. Linear Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sako, H., Franke, K.Y., Saitoh, S. (Eds.), 2011. Computational Forensics: 4th International Workshop, IWCF 2010, Tokyo, Japan, November 11-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Donath, L., Faude, O., 2016. Compression Garments and Performance Enhancement in Balance and Precision Tasks, in: Engel, F., Sperlich, B. (Eds.), Compression Garments in Sports: Athletic Performance and Recovery. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 79–87.

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 Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Huge Ancient Hidden Monument Found In Petra Using Satellites, Drones, And Google Earth [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1999. Aviation: Issues Associated With the Theft of Stock Used to Create Airline Tickets (No. RCED-99-219). 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

Holliday, S., 2010. A case study of how DuPont reduced its environment footprint: The role of organizational change in sustainability (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Stewart, J.B., 2016. How Dauman Lost the Battle for Viacom. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ghosh, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Brodribb and McAdam, 2011; Ghosh, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Brodribb and McAdam, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Dai et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences
ISSN (print)	1319-1578
Scope	General Computer Science