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]

van den Heuvel EPJ. Astronomy. An eccentric pulsar: result of a threesome? Science 2008;320:1298–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bouchon M, Karabulut H. The aftershock signature of supershear earthquakes. Science 2008;320:1323–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Liu M, Johnston MB, Snaith HJ. Efficient planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells by vapour deposition. Nature 2013;501:395–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kim J, Shin J-Y, Kim J-I, Seo J-S, Webster MJ, Lee D, et al. Somatic deletions implicated in functional diversity of brain cells of individuals with schizophrenia and unaffected controls. Sci Rep 2014;4:3807.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Corley RHV, Tinker PB. The Oil Palm. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Teramoto Pedrotti J, Edwards LM, editors. Perspectives on the Intersection of Multiculturalism and Positive Psychology. vol. 7. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bilal S, Rampa F. What Does The European Experience Tell Us On Aid For Trade? In: Lombaerde PD, Puri L, editors. Aid for Trade: Global and Regional Perspectives: 2007 World Report on Regional Integration, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009, p. 63–85.

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]

Hale T. Babies Can Categorize Different Colors, Suggesting It’s Hardwired Into Us. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/babies-can-categorize-different-colors-suggesting-its-hardwired-into-us/ (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. ADP Budget: SSA’s Information Technology Systems Budget Requests and Obligations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Piekielek JA. Public wildlands at the U.S.-Mexico border: Where conservation, migration, and border enforcement collide. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2009.

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]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Georgia: Towns Demand Electricity. New York Times 2004:A12.

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

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