How to format your references using the Journal of King Saud University - Languages and Translation citation style

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

Bohannon, J., 2004. Roger Payne profile. A toxic odyssey. Science 304, 1584–1586.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sablowski, R., Harberd, N.P., 2005. Plant sciences. Plant genes on steroids. Science 307, 1569–1570.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, X., Minton, T.K., Zhang, D.H., 2012. Chemistry. Rethinking chemical reactions at hyperthermal energies. Science 336, 1650–1651.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fischer, G., James, S.A., Roberts, I.N., Oliver, S.G., Louis, E.J., 2000. Chromosomal evolution in Saccharomyces. Nature 405, 451–454.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Youssef, H.A., 2015. Machining of Stainless Steels and Super Alloys. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Cicco, G., Bruley, D.F., Ferrari, M., Harrison, D.K. (Eds.), 2006. Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXVII, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Puiu, A., Giubileo, G., Cesaro, S.N., Palucci, A., 2016. Application of Laser Photoacoustic Spectroscopy and Chemometrics in Homeland Security, in: Ribeiro, P., Raposo, M. (Eds.), Photoptics 2015: Revised Selected Papers, Springer Proceedings in Physics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 53–62.

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 - Languages and Translation.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Dementia Now The Leading Cause Of Death In England And Wales [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, 1995. School Safety: Promising Initiatives for Addressing School Violence (No. HEHS-95-106). 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

Kory, R., 2017. Development of an educational seminar for college female athletes, coaches, athletic directors and parents on the female athlete triad (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hodara, S., 2015. A Master of Metallurgy. New York Times WE10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon, 2004; Sablowski and Harberd, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Sablowski and Harberd, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Fischer et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of King Saud University - Languages and Translation
ISSN (print)	2210-8319
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