How to format your references using the Ain Shams Engineering Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ain Shams Engineering Journal. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

Harris N. Immunology: Chronic effects of acute infections. Nature 2015;526:509–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Guo J, Guo A. Crossmodal interactions between olfactory and visual learning in Drosophila. Science 2005;309:307–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Maier T, Leibundgut M, Ban N. The crystal structure of a mammalian fatty acid synthase. Science 2008;321:1315–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Arvidson RE, Poulet F, Bibring J-P, Wolff M, Gendrin A, Morris RV, et al. Spectral reflectance and morphologic correlations in eastern Terra Meridiani, Mars. Science 2005;307:1591–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Römer H. Theoretical Optics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Hossain E, Leung K, editors. Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures and Protocols. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Köpf B, Mantel H. Eliminating Implicit Information Leaks by Transformational Typing and Unification. In: Dimitrakos T, Martinelli F, Ryan PYA, Schneider S, editors. Formal Aspects in Security and Trust: Thrid International Workshop, FAST 2005, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, July 18-19, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 47–62.

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 Ain Shams Engineering Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Climatologist Says Arctic Carbon Release Could Mean “We’re Fucked.” IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/climatologist-arctic-carbon-release-could-mean-“were-fucked”/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. NASA Contract Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Vas LT. Orbis pictus: Intermedialität zwischen Berliner Stadtmalerei und literarischer Stadterfahrung dargestellt anhand der Werke von E.T.A. Hoffmann und Wilhelm Raabe. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 2008.

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]

Schwartz J. Max Ritvo, 25, Poet Who Chronicled His Cancer Fight. New York Times 2016:A14.

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	Ain Shams Engineering Journal
ISSN (print)	2090-4479
Scope	General Engineering