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]

G. Schilling, HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS: X-ray Satellites Seek Clues to Bursts, Science 290 (2000) 927.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.R. Waitukaitis, H.M. Jaeger, Impact-activated solidification of dense suspensions via dynamic jamming fronts, Nature 487 (2012) 205–209.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.J. Ammon, H. Kanamori, T. Lay, A great earthquake doublet and seismic stress transfer cycle in the central Kuril islands, Nature 451 (2008) 561–565.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.-Y. Chang, C.-E. Li, Y.-C. Huang, H.-F. Hsu, J.-W. Yeh, S.-J. Lin, Structural and thermodynamic factors of suppressed interdiffusion kinetics in multi-component high-entropy materials, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4162.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Lutzke, Surfen in die digitale Zukunft, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

K. Chemla, ed., History of Science, History of Text, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P.J. Antony, Krishna and Neha, in: P.J. Antony (Ed.), Segregation Hurts: Voices of Youth with Disabilities and Their Families in India, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2013: pp. 37–44.

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]

B. Taub, Prejudice Can Actually Change How You View Faces, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/social-stereotypes-warp-way-we-see-faces/ (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, Finanzas del Consumidor: Factores que Afectan la Educacion Financiera de las Personas con Conocimientos Limitados del Ingles, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y. Sanchez, Effectiveness of parent-child interaction therapy for Latino families: A secondary analysis of existing data, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

J. Markoff, Creating a Safer Phone Battery (This One Won’t Catch Fire), 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 Petroleum
ISSN (print)	1110-0621
Scope