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

Buriak JM. Chemistry. Chemistry with nanoscale perfection. Science. 2004;304(5671):692-693.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anfinrud P, Schotte F. Chemistry. X-ray fingerprinting of chemical intermediates in solution. Science. 2005;309(5738):1192-1193.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roselló-Díez A, Ros MA, Torres M. Diffusible signals, not autonomous mechanisms, determine the main proximodistal limb subdivision. Science. 2011;332(6033):1086-1088.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chowell D, Morris LGT, Grigg CM, et al. Patient HLA class I genotype influences cancer response to checkpoint blockade immunotherapy. Science. 2018;359(6375):582-587.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dodson B, Hammett PC, Klerx R. Probabilistic Design for Optimization and Robustness for Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Sakorafas GH, Smyrniotis V, Sarr MG, eds. Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms: From Imaging to Differential Diagnosis and Management. Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Victoria L, dela Cruz L, Balgos B. CSOs and the Challenges in Risk and Vulnerability Assessment. In: Shaw R, Izumi T, eds. Civil Society Organization and Disaster Risk Reduction: The Asian Dilemma. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer Japan; 2014:59-77.

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. Scientists Discover How Sleep Helps Memories Form. IFLScience.

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. Federal Judicial Space Follow-Up. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hawkins AJ. Measurement of the Spacial Distribution of Heat Exchange in a Geothermal Analog Bedrock Site Using Fiber-Otic Distributed Temperature Sensing. 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

Brantley B. A Raging Diva, Centuries Before Soap Operas. New York Times. October 7, 2016:C4.

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