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

Cummer SA. Applied physics. Selecting the direction of sound transmission. Science. 2014 Jan 31;343(6170):495–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sekiya S, Suzuki A. Direct conversion of mouse fibroblasts to hepatocyte-like cells by defined factors. Nature. 2011 Jun 29;475(7356):390–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang B, Xu S, Wu L. Intensified Arabian Sea tropical storms. Nature. 2012 Sep 20;489(7416):E1-2; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pfeiffer F, David C, Burghammer M, Riekel C, Salditt T. Two-dimensional x-ray waveguides and point sources. Science. 2002 Jul 12;297(5579):230–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stein RL. Kinetics of Enzyme Action. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Oliver MA, editor. Geostatistical Applications for Precision Agriculture. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. XIV, 331 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Hoet PHM, Geys J, Nemmar A, Nemery B. Inhalation of Nanomaterials: Short Overview of the Local and Systemic Effects. In: Simeonova PP, Opopol N, Luster MI, editors. Nanotechnology – Toxicological Issues and Environmental Safety and Environmental Safety. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. p. 77–90. (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series).

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

Fang J. Misshaped Fossil Plankton Signal Mass Extinctions [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deformed-plankton-signal-mass-extinctions/

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. Aviation Assistance: Information on Payments Made Under the Disaster Relief and Insurance Reimbursement Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Sep. Report No.: GAO-03-1156R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hill B. HIV-specific CD8 T-cell clonality, publicity and function under different vaccine modalities [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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

Yablonsky L. World’s Fastest Canvas. New York Times. 2010 Apr 25;ST3.

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
Scope