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

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

Gammon, K., 2013. Drugs: Blood battles. Nature 493, S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Drake, J.M., Griffen, B.D., 2010. Early warning signals of extinction in deteriorating environments. Nature 467, 456–459.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huxter, J., Burgess, N., O’Keefe, J., 2003. Independent rate and temporal coding in hippocampal pyramidal cells. Nature 425, 828–832.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tang, Y., Shi, J., Li, S., Wang, L., Cayre, Y.E., Chen, Y., 2014. Microfluidic device with integrated microfilter of conical-shaped holes for high efficiency and high purity capture of circulating tumor cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 6052.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rapaport, H., 2011. The Literary Theory Toolkit. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Turksen, K. (Ed.), 2013. Stem Cells: Current Challenges and New Directions, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Mirza, I.A., Khalil, M.S., Amer, M., Daim, T.U., 2015. Assessment of Wind Potential in Kalar Kahar Region by Comparing On-Site Data with NREL Wind Resource Map of Pakistan, in: Daim, T.U., Kim, J., Iskin, I., Abu Taha, R., van Blommestein, K.C. (Eds.), Policies and Programs for Sustainable Energy Innovations: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 55–81.

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 - Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Earth’s Primordial Atmosphere Lost Due To Relentless Small Impacts [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/earth-s-primordial-atmosphere-lost-due-relentless-small-impacts/ (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, 2006. Child Care and Early Childhood Education: More Information Sharing and Program Review by HHS Could Enhance Access for Families with Limited English Proficiency (Vietnamese Version) (No. GAO-06-952). 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

Gilman, D.G., 2013. Comparative analysis of corporate culture in a multinational organization (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Hager, E.B., Mazzetti, M., 2015. Emirates Secretly Sends Colombian Mercenaries to Yemen Fight. 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 (Gammon, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Drake and Griffen, 2010; Gammon, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Drake and Griffen, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Tang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of King Saud University - Science
Abbreviation	J. King Saud Univ. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1018-3647
Scope	Multidisciplinary