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

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

Lenski, R.E., 2001. Twice as natural. Nature 414, 255.

A journal article with 2 authors

Emini, E.A., Koff, W.C., 2004. AIDS/HIV. Developing an AIDS vaccine: need, uncertainty, hope. Science 304, 1913–1914.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kulathinal, R.J., Bettencourt, B.R., Hartl, D.L., 2004. Compensated deleterious mutations in insect genomes. Science 306, 1553–1554.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shalapour, S., Lin, X.-J., Bastian, I.N., Brain, J., Burt, A.D., Aksenov, A.A., Vrbanac, A.F., Li, W., Perkins, A., Matsutani, T., Zhong, Z., Dhar, D., Navas-Molina, J.A., Xu, J., Loomba, R., Downes, M., Yu, R.T., Evans, R.M., Dorrestein, P.C., Knight, R., Benner, C., Anstee, Q.M., Karin, M., 2017. Erratum: Inflammation-induced IgA+ cells dismantle anti-liver cancer immunity. Nature 552, 430.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garde, F., Aelenei, D., Aelenei, L., Scognamiglio, A., Ayoub, J., 2017. Solution Sets for Net-Zero Energy Buildings. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Sykes, D., Tocci, G.C., Cavanaugh, W.J. (Eds.), 2013. Sound & Vibration 2.0: Design Guidelines for Health Care Facilities. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Shi, Y., 2009. Structural Biology of Programmed Cell Death, in: Dong, Z., Yin, X.-M. (Eds.), Essentials of Apoptosis: A Guide for Basic and Clinical Research. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 95–118.

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 Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2017. How To Talk To Your Dog – According To Science [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-to-talk-to-your-dog-according-to-science/ (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, 2014. School Meal Programs: Implications of Adjusting Income Eligibility Thresholds and Reimbursement Rates by Geographic Differences (No. GAO-14-557). 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

Manley Lima, M.C., 2014. Commuter Students’ Social Integration: The Relationship Between Involvement in Extracurricular Activities and Sense of Belonging (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

LaFRANIERE, S., Lehren, A.W., 2015. The Disproportionate Risk of Driving While Black. 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 (Lenski, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Emini and Koff, 2004; Lenski, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Emini and Koff, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Shalapour et al., 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences
ISSN (print)	1658-077X
Scope