How to format your references using the Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute citation style

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

Money NP. Obituary: Cecil Terence Ingold (1905-2010). Nature 2010;465:1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Goldhaber-Gordon I, Goldhaber-Gordon D. Schrödinger’s mousetrap. Part 6. Nature 2005;433:805.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bryk R, Griffin P, Nathan C. Peroxynitrite reductase activity of bacterial peroxiredoxins. Nature 2000;407:211–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Halloran ME, Longini IM Jr, Nizam A, Yang Y. Containing bioterrorist smallpox. Science 2002;298:1428–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Scheinfeld R. Busting Loose from the Business Game. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Galmiche D, Larchey-Wendling D, editors. Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods: 22nd International Conference, TABLEAUX 2013, Nancy, France, September 16-19, 2013, Proceedings. vol. 8123. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shimizu Y, Williams G. Studying Learners in Intercultural Contexts. In: Clements MA (ken), Bishop AJ, Keitel C, Kilpatrick J, Leung FKS, editors. Third International Handbook of Mathematics Education, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 145–67.

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 Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. How Can We Predict The Hottest Year On Record When Weather Forecasts Are So Uncertain? IFLScience 2017.

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. Demand Distribution Rolodex Card. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Alexander RT. Can the analytical hierarchy process model be effectively applied in the prioritization of information assurance defense in-depth measures? - a quantitative study. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2017.

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]

Wines M. A Racial Divide Remains Over Views of Justice. New York Times 2014:A1.

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	Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute
Abbreviation	J. Egypt. Natl. Canc. Inst.
ISSN (print)	1110-0362
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology