How to format your references using the Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Basic and Applied Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Basic and Applied 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	Download the output style file
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

Dagotto, E., 2001. Superconductivity. The race to beat the cuprates. Science 293, 2410–2411.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kress, T.L., Guthrie, C., 2006. Molecular biology. Accurate RNA siting and splicing gets help from a DEK-hand. Science 312, 1886–1887.

A journal article with 3 authors

Majumdar, S., Singh, A., Rio, D.C., 2013. The human THAP9 gene encodes an active P-element DNA transposase. Science 339, 446–448.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vora, A., Gwamuri, J., Pala, N., Kulkarni, A., Pearce, J.M., Güney, D.Ö., 2014. Exchanging Ohmic losses in metamaterial absorbers with useful optical absorption for photovoltaics. Sci. Rep. 4, 4901.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tsui, J.B.-Y., 2004. Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bilbao, J.I., Reiser, M.F. (Eds.), 2008. Liver Radioembolization with 90Y Microspheres, Medical Radiology, Diagnostic Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hippe, A., Homey, B., Mueller-Homey, A., 2010. Chemokines, in: Liersch, R., Berdel, W.E., Kessler, T. (Eds.), Angiogenesis Inhibition, Recent Results in Cancer Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 35–50.

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 the Association of Arab Universities for Basic and Applied Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2013. The strangest and biggest things in space [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/strangest-and-biggest-things-space/ (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, 1999. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: Pseudorabies in Swine and Payment of Indemnity (No. OGC-99-31). 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

Cappell, S.D., 2010. Systematic analysis of essential genes reveals new regulators of G protein signaling (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Qiu, L., 2017. Critiques of Proposal That Miss the Mark. New York Times A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dagotto, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dagotto, 2001; Kress and Guthrie, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Kress and Guthrie, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Vora et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Basic and Applied Sciences
ISSN (print)	1815-3852
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Chemistry General Energy General Environmental Science General Materials Science General Mathematics