How to format your references using the Journal of Saudi Chemical Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Saudi Chemical Society. 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

[1]

R.H. Ffrench-Constant, Genomics: Of monarchs and migration, Nature 514 (2014) 314–315.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.A. Kidner, R.A. Martienssen, Spatially restricted microRNA directs leaf polarity through ARGONAUTE1, Nature 428 (2004) 81–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.J. Whitaker, D.W. Grogan, J.W. Taylor, Geographic barriers isolate endemic populations of hyperthermophilic archaea, Science 301 (2003) 976–978.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Feng, J. Yang, H. Liu, F. Ye, J. Yang, Selective electrocatalysts toward a prototype of the membraneless direct methanol fuel cell, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3813.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N.V. Tue, M. Reichel, M. Fischer, Berechnung und Bemessung von Betonbrücken, Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

J.F. Peters, A. Skowron, D. Dubois, J.W. Grzymała-Busse, M. Inuiguchi, L. Polkowski, eds., Transactions on Rough Sets II: Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H.W. Jiang, E. Yablonovitch, M. Xiao, M. Sakr, G. Scott, E.T. Croke, Single-Electron-Spin Measurements in Si-Based Semiconductor Nanostructures, in: M. Fanciulli (Ed.), Electron Spin Resonance and Related Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Structures, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 81–100.

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 Saudi Chemical Society.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, New Survey Reveals More Mysteries At Stonehenge, IFLScience (2014).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Information Resources: Management Improvements Essential for Key Agriculture Automated Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V. Minick, Educators’ Beliefs About and Approaches to the Evaluation of Student Writing, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2010.

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

[1]

J. Wagner, Asked Yet Again for Multiple Innings, Mets’ Bullpen Lets a Game Slip Away, New York Times (2017) D5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Saudi Chemical Society
Abbreviation	J. Saudi Chem. Soc.
ISSN (print)	1319-6103
Scope	General Chemistry