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]

R.S. Hawley, Molecular biology. Hitting a tiny target in the dark, Science 331 (2011) 870–871.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.S. Quellmalz, J.W. Pellegrino, Technology and testing, Science 323 (2009) 75–79.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Silva-Santos, D.J. Pennington, A.C. Hayday, Lymphotoxin-mediated regulation of gammadelta cell differentiation by alphabeta T cell progenitors, Science 307 (2005) 925–928.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Schenkl, F. van Mourik, G. van der Zwan, S. Haacke, M. Chergui, Probing the ultrafast charge translocation of photoexcited retinal in bacteriorhodopsin, Science 309 (2005) 917–920.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Tschirhart, W. Bielefeld, Managing Nonprofit Organizations, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., San Francisco, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

C. Singh, ed., Public Debt Management: Separation of Debt from Monetary Management in India, Springer India, New Delhi, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.J. Herring, Evolutionary Perspectives on Child Welfare Law, in: T.K. Shackelford, R.D. Hansen (Eds.), The Evolution of Violence, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 53–72.

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]

E. Andrew, Orphan planets, IFLScience (2013). https://www.iflscience.com/space/orphan-planets/ (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, Minimum Requirements Are Needed for Colleges and Universities To Justify Research Equipment Purchases, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.B. Pettengill, Elucidating the macro- and micro-evolutionary relationships of the federally listed endangered species Agalinis acuta (Orobanchaceae), 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]

L. Saslow, If the Pay’s “Confidential,” It Just Disappeared, New York Times (2007) 14LI2.

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