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]

Johns A. The birth of scientific reading. Nature 2001;409:287.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mounce RCP, Wills MA. Phylogenetic position of Diania challenged. Nature 2011;476:E1; discussion E3-4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chen Q, Bae SC, Granick S. Directed self-assembly of a colloidal kagome lattice. Nature 2011;469:381–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Barrick JE, Yu DS, Yoon SH, Jeong H, Oh TK, Schneider D, et al. Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli. Nature 2009;461:1243–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Shafer DA. Hazardous Materials Characterization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Zhu G. Porous Organic Frameworks: Design, Synthesis and Their Advanced Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fernández-Berni J, Carmona-Galán R, Rodríguez-Vázquez Á. VLSI Implementation of Linear Diffusion. In: Carmona-Galán R, Rodríguez-Vázquez Á, editors. Low-Power Smart Imagers for Vision-Enabled Sensor Networks, New York, NY: Springer; 2012, p. 35–66.

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]

Andrews R. Two Faults Beneath California Are Connected In A Destructive Embrace. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/two-faults-beneath-san-francisco-connected-destructve-embrace/ (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. Mobile Device Location Data: Additional Federal Actions Could Help Protect Consumer Privacy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Johnson JM. Service learning: Providing the building blocks for a socially responsible nursing role. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2013.

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]

Chira S. What Women Lost. New York Times 2016:SR1.

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

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