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]

Ambrose SH. Anthropology. A tool for all seasons. Science 2006;314:930–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tang S, Presgraves DC. Evolution of the Drosophila nuclear pore complex results in multiple hybrid incompatibilities. Science 2009;323:779–82.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sta Ana JL, Frankel MS, Berger KM. Biosecurity. Educating scientists about dual use. Science 2009;326:1193.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Xie H, Wang H, Fu C, Liu Y, Snyder GJ, Zhao X, et al. The intrinsic disorder related alloy scattering in ZrNiSn half-Heusler thermoelectric materials. Sci Rep 2014;4:6888.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Islam MR, Chhetri AB, Khan MM. The Greening of Petroleum Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Yamada S. OSS Reliability Measurement and Assessment. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Miska M, Warita H, Torday A, Kuwahara M. International Traffic Database: Gathering Traffic Data Fast and Intuitive. In: Barceló J, Kuwahara M, editors. Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization, New York, NY: Springer; 2010, p. 47–56.

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. First Working Eggs Made From Stem Cells Points To Fertility Breakthrough. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/first-working-eggs-made-from-stem-cells-points-to-fertility-breakthrough/ (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. Quantitative Data Analysis: An Introduction. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hebel O. Parental involvement in the individual educational program for Israeli students with disabilities. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2012.

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]

Otis J. Young Mother Sees Education as a Path to Help Her Daughter. New York Times 2016:A20.

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

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