How to format your references using the Egyptian Journal of Anaesthesia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Egyptian Journal of Anaesthesia. 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]

Ruth T. Accelerating production of medical isotopes. Nature 2009;457:536–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Foulger GR, Natland JH. Geology. Is “hotspot” volcanism a consequence of plate tectonics? Science 2003;300:921–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ferguson NM, Galvani AP, Bush RM. Ecological and immunological determinants of influenza evolution. Nature 2003;422:428–33.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Plikus MV, Mayer JA, de la Cruz D, Baker RE, Maini PK, Maxson R, et al. Cyclic dermal BMP signalling regulates stem cell activation during hair regeneration. Nature 2008;451:340–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Duckert GH. Practical Enterprise Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Shen W, Luo J, Lin Z, Barthès J-PA, Hao Q, editors. Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design III: 10th International Conference, CSCWD 2006, Nanjing, China, May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 4402. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nasca MR, Lacarrubba F, Musumeci ML, Micali G. Inflammatory Disorders. In: Cusini M, Donofrio P, Dinotta F, editors. Atlas of Male Genital Disorders: A Useful Aid for Clinical Diagnosis, Milano: Springer; 2013, p. 51–97.

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 Journal of Anaesthesia.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. House Science Committee Tweets Breitbart Article Denouncing Climate Change. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/house-science-committee-tweets-climate-change-denial-breitbart-article/ (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. Serious Problems Continue to Trouble the Air Traffic Control Work Force. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Di Giacomo FA. Education amidst transition: The case of Romania. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

Haughney C, Carr D. Boston Globe Is Another Metro Paper Gone Local. New York Times 2013:B1.

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 Journal of Anaesthesia
Abbreviation	Egypt. J. Anaesth.
ISSN (print)	1110-1849
Scope	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine