How to format your references using the Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences. 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

Morrow, R., 2008. Engineering. Wi-Fi-Fo-Fum. Science 320, 1018–1019.

A journal article with 2 authors

Azzalin, C.M., Lingner, J., 2004. Cell biology. Telomere wedding ends in divorce. Science 304, 60–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hasty, J., McMillen, D., Collins, J.J., 2002. Engineered gene circuits. Nature 420, 224–230.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Antson, A.A., Burns, J.E., Moroz, O.V., Scott, D.J., Sanders, C.M., Bronstein, I.B., Dodson, G.G., Wilson, K.S., Maitland, N.J., 2000. Structure of the intact transactivation domain of the human papillomavirus E2 protein. Nature 403, 805–809.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf, R.A., 2012. Atmospheric Pressure Plasma for Surface Modification. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Urban, G.A. (Ed.), 2006. BioMEMS, Microsystems. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Delamere, P.A., Bagenal, F., Paranicas, C., Masters, A., Radioti, A., Bonfond, B., Ray, L., Jia, X., Nichols, J., Arridge, C., 2016. Solar Wind and Internally Driven Dynamics: Influences on Magnetodiscs and Auroral Responses, in: Szego, K., Achilleos, N., Arridge, Chris, Badman, S., Delamere, P., Grodent, D., Galland Kivelson, M., Louarn, P. (Eds.), The Magnetodiscs and Aurorae of Giant Planets, Space Sciences Series of ISSI. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 51–97.

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 Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Physicists Plan To Put A Microbe In Two Places At Once [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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

Government Accountability Office, 1996. Certification of New Airlines: Department of Transportation Has Taken Action to Improve Its Certification Process (No. RCED-96-8). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Narita, D., 2008. Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) and climate change mitigation: An analysis of economic optimality and policy making (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Seltzer, M., 2017. Doctor in the House. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Morrow, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Azzalin and Lingner, 2004; Morrow, 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Azzalin and Lingner, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Antson et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences
ISSN (print)	2314-8535
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