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

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

Morell, V., 2014. When the bat sings. Science 344, 1334–1337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poliakoff, M., King, P., 2001. Phenomenal fluids. Nature 412, 125.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bland-Hawthorn, J., Harwit, A., Harwit, M., 2002. Astronomy. Laser telemetry from space. Science 297, 523.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rohani, P., Green, C.J., Mantilla-Beniers, N.B., Grenfell, B.T., 2003. Ecological interference between fatal diseases. Nature 422, 885–888.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tunley, M., Whittaker, A., Gee, J., Button, M., 2015. The Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sala, E., 2008. Radiology for Surgeons in Clinical Practice. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Emadzadeh, A.A., Speyer, J.L., 2011. Pulse Delay Estimation, in: Speyer, J.L. (Ed.), Navigation in Space by X-Ray Pulsars. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 35–47.

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 - Engineering Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. How To Reach Zero Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Three Steps [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-reach-zero-net-greenhouse-gas-emissions-three-steps/ (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, 1996. Scientific Research: Continued Vigilance Critical to Protecting Human Subjects (No. HEHS-96-72). 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

Roy Chowdhury, T., 2012. Tracking Carbon Flow during Methane Oxidation into Methanotrophs Using 13C-PLFA Labeling in Pulsing Freshwater Wetlands (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Dolnick, B., 2017. Cold Showers. New York Times MM26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morell, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Morell, 2014; Poliakoff and King, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Poliakoff and King, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Rohani et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of King Saud University - Engineering Sciences
ISSN (print)	1018-3639
Scope	General Engineering