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

Scarpa, T., 2006. Research funding: peer review at NIH. Science 311, 41.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lobanov, A.P., Zensus, J.A., 2001. A cosmic double helix in the archetypical quasar 3C273. Science 294, 128–131.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baldi, C., Cho, S., Ellis, R.E., 2009. Mutations in two independent pathways are sufficient to create hermaphroditic nematodes. Science 326, 1002–1005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Saito, T., Owen, D.M., Jiang, F., Marcotrigiano, J., Gale, M., Jr, 2008. Innate immunity induced by composition-dependent RIG-I recognition of hepatitis C virus RNA. Nature 454, 523–527.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond, B., 2008. Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Ikeda, M., Ashley, K.D., Chan, T.-W. (Eds.), 2006. Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 8th International Conference, ITS 2006, Jhongli, Taiwan, June 26-30, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Trinks, I., 2015. Nondestructive Subsurface Mapping, in: Carver, M., Gaydarska, B., Montón-Subías, S. (Eds.), Field Archaeology from Around the World: Ideas and Approaches, SpringerBriefs in Archaeology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 33–41.

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. DIY Can Be Dangerous – But It’s The Invisible Dust That May Harm You The Most [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/diy-can-be-dangerous-it-s-invisible-dust-may-harm-you-most/ (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, 1997. Commercial Passenger Vehicles: Safety Inspection of Commercial Buses and Vans Entering the United States From Mexico (No. RCED-97-194). 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

Glasgow, H.L., 2015. Design and Selection of Probes for In Vivo Molecular Targeting and Imaging (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2004. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Dalai Lama Arrives. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scarpa, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Lobanov and Zensus, 2001; Scarpa, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Lobanov and Zensus, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Saito et al., 2008)

About the journal

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