How to format your references using the Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette. 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

Johns A. The birth of scientific reading. Nature. 2001;409(6818):287.

A journal article with 2 authors

Callan B, Gillespie I. The path to new medicines. Nature. 2007;449(7159):164-165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van Horn RC, Watts HE, Holekamp KE. Do female hyaenas choose mates based on tenure? Nature. 2008;454(7201):E1; discussion E2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Park JH, Scheerer P, Hofmann KP, Choe HW, Ernst OP. Crystal structure of the ligand-free G-protein-coupled receptor opsin. Nature. 2008;454(7201):183-187.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kay R. Statistical Thinking for Non-Statisticians in Drug Regulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Féray V. Mod-ϕ Convergence: Normality Zones and Precise Deviations. (Méliot PL, Nikeghbali A, eds.). Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Hockings E. A Critical Examination of Policy-Developments in Information Governance and the Biosciences. In: Mittelstadt BD, Floridi L, eds. The Ethics of Biomedical Big Data. Law, Governance and Technology Series. Springer International Publishing; 2016:95-115.

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 Pediatric Association Gazette.

Blog post

Fang J. Why European Fruit Flies Hold Their Liquor Better Than Tropical Ones. IFLScience. November 13, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-european-fruit-flies-hold-their-liquor-better-tropical-ones/

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

Government Accountability Office. Aviation Services: Automation and Consolidation of Flight Service Stations. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson AC. The Lived Experience of the Adult African American Female Who Has Lived in Multiple Foster Care Placements. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 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

Gavin J. Politics, Passion and No Shirking on Practice. New York Times. April 30, 2017:C7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Pediatric Association Gazette
ISSN (print)	1110-6638
Scope