How to format your references using the Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics. 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]

Stirling A. Keep it complex. Nature 2010;468:1029–31.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Armitage BA, Berget PB. Chemistry. An enlightening structure-function relationship. Science 2008;319:1195–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Capraro V, Jordan JJ, Rand DG. Heuristics guide the implementation of social preferences in one-shot Prisoner’s Dilemma experiments. Sci Rep 2014;4:6790.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Smale DA, Brown KM, Barnes DKA, Fraser KPP, Clarke A. Ice scour disturbance in Antarctic waters. Science 2008;321:371.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dasgupta A. Resolving Erroneous Reports in Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Amit M, Itskovitz-Eldor J, editors. Atlas of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Derivation and Culturing. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Selvaggi S. Diritto d’autore in rete. In: Selvaggi S, Vollono E, Sicignano G, editors. e-Learning: Nuovi strumenti per insegnare, apprendere, comunicare online, Milano: Springer; 2007, p. 77–93.

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 Medical Human Genetics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. What You See Is Not Always What You Get: How Virtual Reality Can Manipulate Our Minds. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/what-you-see-is-not-always-what-you-get-how-virtual-reality-can-manipulate-our-minds/ (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. Transportation Security Administration: Clear Policies and Oversight Needed for Designation of Sensitive Security Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Archibald GA. Regionalizing competitive talent: An exploratory study of the role of human capital management in the context of economic integration and labor mobility. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2008.

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]

Herrman J. An Election Ill Timed for Media in Transition. New York Times 2016:B1.

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 Medical Human Genetics
Abbreviation	Egypt. J. Med. Hum. Genet.
ISSN (print)	1110-8630
Scope	Genetics(clinical)