How to format your references using the Journal of Taibah University for Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Taibah University for 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

[1]

D.-P. Zhang, Plant science. Signaling to the nucleus with a loaded GUN, Science 316 (2007) 700–701.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Bouziat, B. Jabri, IMMUNOLOGY. Breaching the gut-vascular barrier, Science 350 (2015) 742–743.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E.A. Gladyshev, M. Meselson, I.R. Arkhipova, Massive horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers, Science 320 (2008) 1210–1213.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. Kupperman, S. An, N. Osborne, S. Waldron, D.Y. Stainier, A sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor regulates cell migration during vertebrate heart development, Nature 406 (2000) 192–195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Mohanty, R. Ghosh, Planning a Scientific Career in Industry, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

B.R. Moyer, N.P.S. Cheruvu, T.C.-C. Hu, eds., Pharmaco-Imaging in Drug and Biologics Development: Fundamentals and Applications, Springer, New York, NY, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.F. Ülgener, Obligations and Liabilities of the Carrier, in: M.D. Güner-Özbek (Ed.), The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea: An Appraisal of the “Rotterdam Rules,” Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 139–153.

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 Taibah University for Science.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Scientists Just Captured Something Extraordinary At The Moment Of Fertilization, IFLScience (2016).

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, More Emphasis Needed on Data Analysis Phase of Space Science Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. Murray, California community college athletic directors lived experience and perceptions about financing issues with athletic programs, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2012.

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]

B. Brantley, Lost and Found in a Magic Tale of Nomads, New York Times (2017) C5.

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 Taibah University for Science
Abbreviation	J. Taibah Univ. SCI
ISSN (print)	1658-3655
Scope