How to format your references using the Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis citation style

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

E.J. Larson, Antarctica: Turning the world upside down, Nature 480 (2011) 29–31.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Wu, I.D. Hickson, The Bloom’s syndrome helicase suppresses crossing over during homologous recombination, Nature 426 (2003) 870–874.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Yang, F. Pan, W.-B. Gan, Stably maintained dendritic spines are associated with lifelong memories, Nature 462 (2009) 920–924.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Rubin, A.S. Turner, S. Bain, C. Mallinckrodt, K. McLeod, Anabolism. Low mechanical signals strengthen long bones, Nature 412 (2001) 603–604.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Christophers, Banking Across Boundaries, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M.G. Sideris, ed., Observing our Changing Earth, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N.J. Minter, L.A. Buatois, M.G. Mángano, R.B. MacNaughton, N.S. Davies, M.R. Gibling, The Prelude to Continental Invasion, in: M.G. Mángano, L.A. Buatois (Eds.), The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events: Volume 1: Precambrian and Paleozoic, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2016: pp. 157–204.

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 Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Swim Through Indonesia’s Coral Reefs In This Immersive 360° Video, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/swim-through-indonesias-coral-reefs-in-this-immersive-360-video/ (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, Intercity Passenger Rail: Recording Clearer Reasons for Awards Decisions Would Improve Otherwise Good Grantmaking Practices, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.A. Russo, The potential harms of breast cancer screening: estimating the unnecessary surgical diagnosis of benign breast lesions and its impact on quality and cost among insured women younger than 65 years old, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2014.

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]

B. Brantley, A Star Still Airlifts the Show, New York Times (2017) C1.

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 Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis
Abbreviation	Egypt. J. Chest Dis. Tuberc.
ISSN (print)	0422-7638
Scope	Infectious Diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine