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]

B.R. Conklin, Journal club. A geneticist wonders why we need to sleep, Nature. 461 (2009) 573.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.P. Donnelly, J.D. Woodruff, Intense hurricane activity over the past 5,000 years controlled by El Niño and the West African monsoon, Nature. 447 (2007) 465–468.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Bylander, T. Duty, P. Delsing, Current measurement by real-time counting of single electrons, Nature. 434 (2005) 361–364.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.P. Devlin, N. Uras, J. Sadlej, V. Buch, Discrete stages in the solvation and ionization of hydrogen chloride adsorbed on ice particles, Nature. 417 (2002) 269–271.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.T. Shaw, Introduction to Polymer Rheology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

M. Agosti, F. Esposito, C. Thanos, eds., Digital Libraries: 6th Italian Research Conference, IRCDL 2010, Padua, Italy, January 28-29, 2010. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Magin, F. Huber, A. Herrmann, Determinants of Teenagers’ Brand Buying Behavior — Development of a Structural Equation Model, in: M. Moore, R.S. Moore (Eds.), New Meanings for Marketing in a New Millennium: Proceedings of the 2001 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 12–16.

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, The Omega-Shaped Jet Stream Responsible for Europe’s Heatwave, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/omega-shaped-jet-stream-responsible-europe-s-heatwave/ (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, K-12 Education: Internal Controls for Program Management and Oversight Can Help Ensure the Success of School Choice Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Elder, A Mixed-Method Investigation of the Missouri Pre-Service Teacher Assessment Pilot Program at a Private Midwestern University, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2015.

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]

R.R. Ruiz, Sharapova Suspension Is Cut by Nine Months, New York Times. (2016) B8.

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

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