How to format your references using the Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association. 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

Crow JM. Insomnia: chasing the dream. Nature. 2013 May 23;497(7450):S16-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

KewalRamani VN, Coffin JM. Virology. Weapons of mutational destruction. Science. 2003 Aug 15;301(5635):923–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Snellen IAG, de Mooij EJW, Albrecht S. The changing phases of extrasolar planet CoRoT-1b. Nature. 2009 May 28;459(7246):543–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu B, Lu S, Hu YL, Liao X, Ouyang M, Wang Y. RhoA and membrane fluidity mediates the spatially polarized Src/FAK activation in response to shear stress. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov 12;4:7008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ralph D, Graham P. MMS: Technologies, Usage and Business Models. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2004.

An edited book

Dietz JLG, Albani A, Barjis J, editors. Advances in Enterprise Engineering I: 4th International Workshop CIAO! and 4th International Workshop EOMAS, held at CAiSE 2008, Montpellier, France, June 16-17, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. XIV, 195 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 10).

A chapter in an edited book

Zhao FJ, Zang C, Luo CB. Standard System and Legal Protection of Food Security of Agricultural Special Products. In: Zhong Z, editor. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012: Volume 5. London: Springer; 2013. p. 23–8. (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering).

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 Public Health Association.

Blog post

Taub B. Medical And Recreational Marijuana Approved In Several US States. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Organizational Transformation: Enterprise Architecture Value Needs to Be Measured and Reported. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Sep. Report No.: GAO-12-791.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Eldridge Z. The Empowerment of a Forgotten Population [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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

Saslow L. Roadwork on Two Parkways Draws Protest. New York Times. 2008 Oct 19;LI5.

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	Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association
Abbreviation	J. Egypt. Public Health Assoc.
ISSN (print)	0013-2446
ISSN (online)	2090-262X
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