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]

Church G. Perspective: Encourage the innovators. Nature 2015;528:S7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Prindle A, Hasty J. Biochemistry. Stochastic emergence of groupthink. Science 2010;328:987–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Janetopoulos C, Jin T, Devreotes P. Receptor-mediated activation of heterotrimeric G-proteins in living cells. Science 2001;291:2408–11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kreuer S, Hauschild A, Fink T, Baumbach JI, Maddula S, Volk T. Two different approaches for pharmacokinetic modeling of exhaled drug concentrations. Sci Rep 2014;4:5423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schiek B, Rolfes I, Siweris H-J. Noise in High-Frequency Circuits and Oscillators. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Furse MT, Hering D, Brabec K, Buffagni A, Sandin L, Verdonschot PFM, editors. The Ecological Status of European Rivers: Evaluation and Intercalibration of Assessment Methods. vol. 188. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dong A, Kleinsmann M. Methods for Studying Collaborative Design Thinking. In: Cash P, Stanković T, Štorga M, editors. Experimental Design Research: Approaches, Perspectives, Applications, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 83–96.

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]

Andrew D. How Overfishing And Shark-Finning Could Increase The Pace Of Climate Change. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-overfishing-and-sharkfinning-could-increase-the-pace-of-climate-change/ (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. Aviation Security: Systematic Planning Needed to Optimize the Deployment of Checked Baggage Screening Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sanchez G. An educational program to support Latina teen mothers: A grant proposal project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Eligon J. Cagey Mayweather Saves Fireworks for Last. New York Times 2017:D3.

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