How to format your references using the Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences citation style

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

Müller UK. Physiology. Fish ’n flag. Science 2003;302:1511–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

John B, Hunter CA. Immunology. Neutrophil soldiers or Trojan Horses? Science 2008;321:917–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kempner J, Perlis CS, Merz JF. Ethics. Forbidden knowledge. Science 2005;307:854.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Murata T, Yamato I, Kakinuma Y, Leslie AGW, Walker JE. Structure of the rotor of the V-Type Na+-ATPase from Enterococcus hirae. Science 2005;308:654–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Derbyshire E. Nutrition in the Childbearing Years. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Ferrari A. The Spastic Forms of Cerebral Palsy: A Guide to the Assessment of Adaptive Functions. Milano: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Siu MKY, Cheng CY. Extracellular Matrix and Its Role in Spermatogenesis. In: Cheng CY, editor. Molecular Mechanisms in Spermatogenesis, New York, NY: Springer; 2009, p. 74–91.

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 Basic and Applied Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Mauna a Wakea: Hawai’i’s Sacred Mountain And The Contentious Thirty Meter Telescope. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mauna-wakea-hawaii-s-sacred-mountain-and-contentious-thirty-meter-telescope/ (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. Implementation of OMB Circular No. A-76 at Science Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rodgers R. Phylogenomic Analysis of Fundulidae Using RNA-Sequencing Data. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois 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]

Gordon MR. Trump Advisers Call for More Troops to Break Deadlock in Afghan War. New York Times 2017:A4.

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 Basic and Applied Sciences
ISSN (print)	2314-808X
Scope