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

Reichhardt T. Funding woes spell doom for US radio dish. Nature. 2000;404(6773):7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Owen R, Jobling S. Environmental science: The hidden costs of flexible fertility. Nature. 2012;485(7399):441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fändrich M, Fletcher MA, Dobson CM. Amyloid fibrils from muscle myoglobin. Nature. 2001;410(6825):165-166.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Michel LS, Liberal V, Chatterjee A, et al. MAD2 haplo-insufficiency causes premature anaphase and chromosome instability in mammalian cells. Nature. 2001;409(6818):355-359.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grant G. The Water Sensitive City. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Taft ST, Duff RA, Brukardt RL, Ploedereder E, Leroy P, Schonberg E, eds. Ada 2012 Reference Manual. Language and Standard Libraries: International Standard ISO/IEC 8652/2012 (E). Vol 8339. Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Poteat VP, Scheer JR, Chong ESK. Sexual Orientation-Based Disparities in School and Juvenile Justice Discipline Practices: Attending to Contributing Factors and Evidence of Bias. In: Skiba RJ, Mediratta K, Rausch MK, eds. Inequality in School Discipline: Research and Practice to Reduce Disparities. Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016:61-78.

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

Andrew E. Serotonin: Pleasure or Pain? IFLScience. August 19, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/serotonin-pleasure-or-pain/

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. The Status of Telecommunications Efforts in the General Accounting Office. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cervantes I. Flexural Retrofitting of Reinforced Concrete Structures Using Green Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymer Plates. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Wagner J. Bruce Is Again Hitting Homers, and Again Not Attracting Interest. New York Times. July 27, 2017:B11.

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