How to format your references using the Egyptian Informatics Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Egyptian Informatics 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]

Geldner N. Botany. Making phloem--a near-death experience. Science 2014;345:875–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Freedman DJ, Assad JA. Experience-dependent representation of visual categories in parietal cortex. Nature 2006;443:85–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hansen LN, Zimmerman ME, Kohlstedt DL. Laboratory measurements of the viscous anisotropy of olivine aggregates. Nature 2012;492:415–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Schaal B, Coureaud G, Langlois D, Giniès C, Sémon E, Perrier G. Chemical and behavioural characterization of the rabbit mammary pheromone. Nature 2003;424:68–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA). Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

O’Donnell L, Nedjati-Gilani G, Rathi Y, Reisert M, Schneider T, editors. Computational Diffusion MRI: MICCAI Workshop, Boston, MA, USA, September 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Takala TM, Hämäläinen P, Matveinen M, Simonen T, Takatalo J. Enhancing Spatial Perception and User Experience in Video Games with Volumetric Shadows. In: Wyeld T, Calder P, Shen H, editors. Computer-Human Interaction. Cognitive Effects of Spatial Interaction, Learning, and Ability: 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2013, Adelaide, SA, Australia, November 25-29, 2013. Revised and Extended Papers, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 91–113.

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 Egyptian Informatics Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Check Out These Amazing Artworks Created With Microbes In A Petri Dish. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/amazing-art-created-microbes-petri-dish/ (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. Patent and Trademark Amendments of 1980 Set the Stage for Uniform Patent Practice by Federal Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lin TS. The invisible “religious” minority: Working with the nonreligious bereaved. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Johnson G. In Every Breath, a Cancer Risk? New York Times 2016:D2.

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	Egyptian Informatics Journal
Abbreviation	Egypt. Inform. J.
ISSN (print)	1110-8665
Scope	Computer Science Applications Information Systems Management Science and Operations Research