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]

Puglisi JD. Synthetic biology: Ribosomal ties that bind. Nature 2015;524:45–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Palczewski K, Kiser PD. Biochemistry. As good as chocolate. Science 2013;340:562–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Watanabe Y, Farquhar J, Ohmoto H. Anomalous fractionations of sulfur isotopes during thermochemical sulfate reduction. Science 2009;324:370–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hansen TW, Wagner JB, Hansen PL, Dahl S, Topsøe H, Jacobsen CJ. Atomic-resolution in situ transmission electron microscopy of a promoter of a heterogeneous catalyst. Science 2001;294:1508–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stanoyevitch A. Introduction to Numerical Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations Using MATLAB®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Ebi KL, Burton I, McGregor GR, editors. Biometeorology for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change. vol. 1. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wang BX, Japkowicz N. Boosting Support Vector Machines for Imbalanced Data Sets. In: An A, Matwin S, Raś ZW, Ślęzak D, editors. Foundations of Intelligent Systems: 17th International Symposium, ISMIS 2008 Toronto, Canada, May 20-23, 2008 Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 38–47.

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. “Mother” Robot Builds Evolving Babies. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robot-evolves/ (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. Job Training Partnership Act, Title III Dislocated Worker Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Snyder QZ. From anarchy to confederacy: A theory of international politics. 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]

Martin GS, Leland J. Worshiping the Bony Lady. New York Times 2017:MB6.

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