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]

Dalton R. International science council names first female president. Nature 2000;403:582.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Popp MW, Maquat LE. RNA. A TRICK’n way to see the pioneer round of translation. Science 2015;347:1316–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Elbelrhiti H, Claudin P, Andreotti B. Field evidence for surface-wave-induced instability of sand dunes. Nature 2005;437:720–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chai J, Du C, Wu JW, Kyin S, Wang X, Shi Y. Structural and biochemical basis of apoptotic activation by Smac/DIABLO. Nature 2000;406:855–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kölle W. Wasseranalysen - richtig beurteilt. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Sattar A, Kang B-H, editors. AI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hobart, Australia, December 4-8, 2006. Proceedings. vol. 4304. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Subrahmanyam K, Šmahel D. Intimacy and the Internet: Relationships with Friends, Romantic Partners, and Family Members. In: Smahel D, editor. Digital Youth: The Role of Media in Development, New York, NY: Springer; 2011, p. 81–102.

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. Luke And Leia Might Be Twins - But Thanks To Space Travel, They Wouldn’t Be The Same Age. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/time-dilation-star-wars-would-have-made-luke-younger-his-twin-leia/ (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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Severity of Problem Calls for Strong Leadership and Effective Partnerships. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Morrow ST. Coboundary theorems for collections of random variables with moment conditions. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 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]

Brantley B. Summoning the Dead With Sacred Coca-Cola. New York Times 2017:C1.

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

Research and Writing Guides