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]

Robbins M. Policy: Fuelling politics. Nature 2011;474:S22-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hunt PA, Hassold TJ. Sex matters in meiosis. Science 2002;296:2181–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kolodner RD, Putnam CD, Myung K. Maintenance of genome stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Science 2002;297:552–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hou Y, Du X, Scheiner S, McMeekin DP, Wang Z, Li N, et al. A generic interface to reduce the efficiency-stability-cost gap of perovskite solar cells. Science 2017;358:1192–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Samara T. ERP and Information Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Shen G, Huang X, editors. Advanced Research on Electronic Commerce, Web Application, and Communication: International Conference, ECWAC 2011, Guangzhou, China, April 16-17, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. vol. 143. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Akazawa H, Komuro I. Mechanical Stress Induces Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy Through Agonist-Independent Activation of Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor. In: Kamkin A, Kiseleva I, editors. Mechanosensitivity of the Heart, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010, p. 83–95.

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]

O`Callaghan J. SpaceX Delays Launch Of Rocket To Saturday January 14. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-delays-launch-of-rocket-to-saturday-january-14/ (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. FAA Reauthorization Act: Progress and Challenges Implementing Various Provisions of the 2012 Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Holler JC. A phenomenological case study of finding meaning through the developmental nature of a doctoral program in organization change. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2015.

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]

Pilon M. U.S.T.A. Faces Suit Over Sabbath Schedule. New York Times 2014:D4.

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