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]

Rees J. Complex disease and the new clinical sciences. Science 2002;296:698–700.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Muerdter F, Stark A. Genomics: Hiding in plain sight. Nature 2014;512:374–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Coumou D, Lehmann J, Beckmann J. Climate change. The weakening summer circulation in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes. Science 2015;348:324–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Guenther U-P, Weinberg DE, Zubradt MM, Tedeschi FA, Stawicki BN, Zagore LL, et al. The helicase Ded1p controls use of near-cognate translation initiation codons in 5’ UTRs. Nature 2018;559:130–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

He Z. Wavelet Analysis and Transient Signal Processing Applications for Power Systems. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Spini D, Elcheroth G, Corkalo Biruski D, editors. War, Community, and Social Change: Collective Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia. vol. 17. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nagnibeda E, Kustova E. Multi-Temperature Models in Transport and Relaxation Theory. In: Kustova E, editor. Non-Equilibrium Reacting Gas Flows: Kinetic Theory of Transport and Relaxation Processes, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 55–95.

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]

Davis J. Stem Cells From Pregnant Women Could Reverse Aging In Bones. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stem-cells-from-pregnant-women-could-reverse-aging-in-bones/ (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. DOE’s Laboratory Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Goshin LS. Behavior Problems and Competence in Preschoolers Who Spent Their First One to Eighteen Months in a Prison Nursery Program. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 2010.

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]

Witz B. Judge Dismisses Familia’s Criminal Case. New York Times 2016:B8.

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

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