How to format your references using the Egyptian Journal of Petroleum citation style

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

A.W.B. Johnston, BIOGEOCHEMISTRY. Who can cleave DMSP?, Science 348 (2015) 1430–1431.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.D. Baughn, M.H. Malamy, The strict anaerobe Bacteroides fragilis grows in and benefits from nanomolar concentrations of oxygen, Nature 427 (2004) 441–444.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Dhara, E.J. Mele, R. Agarwal, APPLIED OPTICS. Voltage-tunable circular photogalvanic effect in silicon nanowires, Science 349 (2015) 726–729.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Reya, A.W. Duncan, L. Ailles, J. Domen, D.C. Scherer, K. Willert, L. Hintz, R. Nusse, I.L. Weissman, A role for Wnt signalling in self-renewal of haematopoietic stem cells, Nature 423 (2003) 409–414.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Ramsinghani, The Business of Venture Capital, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

C.-S. Kim, C. Randow, T. Sano, eds., Hybrid and Hierarchical Composite Materials, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Bronfman, ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS IN ISRAEL, in: I. Linkov, G.A. Kiker, R.J. Wenning (Eds.), Environmental Security in Harbors and Coastal Areas: Management Using Comparative Risk Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 81–84.

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 Petroleum.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, New Evidence Suggests There Are More Dwarf Planets In Our Solar System, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/study-suggests-presence-more-dwarf-planets-our-solar-system/ (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, Prekindergarten: Four Selected States Expanded Access by Relying on Schools and Existing Providers of Early Education and Care to Provide Services, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B.L. Rountree, Theory and practice of dynamic voltage /frequency scaling in the high performance computing environment, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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]

G. Vecsey, In Tight Battle, Jets Look Like the Geniuses, New York Times (2011) D1.

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 Petroleum
ISSN (print)	1110-0621
Scope