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]

Smith J. Nice work--but is it science? Nature 2000;408:293.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tsuji K, Tsutani K. Follow the leader. Nature 2008;453:851–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Walsh JP, Cohen WM, Arora A. Science and the law. Working through the patent problem. Science 2003;299:1021.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cao T, Wei C, Simpson RE, Zhang L, Cryan MJ. Fast tuning of double Fano resonance using a phase-change metamaterial under low power intensity. Sci Rep 2014;4:4463.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Estampe D. Supply Chain Performance and Evaluation Models. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Schonmann S, editor. Key Concepts in Theatre/Drama Education. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Barr RC, van Oosterom A. Genesis of the Electrocardiogram. In: Macfarlane PW, van Oosterom A, Pahlm O, Kligfield P, Janse M, Camm J, editors. Comprehensive Electrocardiology, London: Springer; 2010, p. 167–90.

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. This Kid Had A Close Encounter With A Lion In Japan. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-kid-had-a-close-encounter-with-a-lion-in-japan/ (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. Business Systems Modernization: IRS Has Satisfied Congressional Direction on the Custodial Accounting Project. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gilbert SA. Succession Planning Relating to the Millennial Generation in Private Four-Year Universities. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 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]

Shpigel B. U.S. to Face Honduras With a Depleted Roster. New York Times 2017:B12.

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

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