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]

Gavaghan H. Biology moves into the silicon stage. Nature 2001;409:964.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Druzd D, Scheiermann C. Immunology. Some monocytes got rhythm. Science 2013;341:1462–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kortenkamp SJ, Wetherill GW, Inaba S. Runaway growth of planetary embryos facilitated by massive bodies in a protoplanetary disk. Science 2001;293:1127–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Callaghan AJ, Marcaida MJ, Stead JA, McDowall KJ, Scott WG, Luisi BF. Structure of Escherichia coli RNase E catalytic domain and implications for RNA turnover. Nature 2005;437:1187–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wang L, Tan KC. Modern Industrial Automation Software Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Hotokka M, Brändas EJ, Maruani J, Delgado-Barrio G, editors. Advances in Quantum Methods and Applications in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology. vol. 27. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Traum AZ. Ion and Fluid Dynamics in Hypertension. In: Flynn JT, Ingelfinger JR, Portman RJ, editors. Pediatric Hypertension, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011, p. 65–73.

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]

Davis J. Trees Can Sense When They Are Being Eaten By Deer And Launch A Defense. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/trees-can-sense-when-they-are-being-eaten-by-deer-and-launch-a-defense/ (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. Federal Software Licenses: Better Management Needed to Achieve Significant Savings Government-Wide. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Walsh MA. Passage. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Murphy MJO. What’s Left Behind. New York Times 2010:BR17.

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