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]

Giessibl FJ. Chemistry. Seeing the reaction. Science 2013;340:1417–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mukhopadhyay RD, Ajayaghosh A. Supramolecular chemistry. Living supramolecular polymerization. Science 2015;349:241–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Capozza R, Barel I, Urbakh M. Probing and tuning frictional aging at the nanoscale. Sci Rep 2013;3:1896.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Allen AE, Dupont CL, Oborník M, Horák A, Nunes-Nesi A, McCrow JP, et al. Evolution and metabolic significance of the urea cycle in photosynthetic diatoms. Nature 2011;473:203–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Posudin Y. Methods of Measuring Environmental Parameters. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Holmarsdottir HB, Nomlomo V, Farag AI, Desai Z, editors. Gendered Voices: Reflections on Gender and Education in South Africa and Sudan. vol. 23. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Martellini M, Meulenbelt S, Paturej K. Cyber Security for Chemical Plants. In: Martellini M, editor. Cyber Security: Deterrence and IT Protection for Critical Infrastructures, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013, p. 37–51.

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]

Carpineti A. Planet In Three-Star System Directly Imaged For The First Time. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/planet-in-threestar-system-directly-imaged-for-the-first-time/ (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. [Comments on EPA Authority to Exempt Clean-Fuel Vehicles from Transportation Control Measures]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pulido MD. Self-Reported Emotional State as a Measure of Interpersonal Vulnerability. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Rothenberg B. Engaged Players Are on Same Side, Even in Singles. New York Times 2017:SP5.

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