How to format your references using the The Egyptian Heart Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Egyptian Heart Journal. 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

Kormendy J. ASTRONOMY: Enhanced: Monsters at the Heart of Galaxy Formation. Science. 2000;289(5484):1484-1485.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pan H, Chen B. Ultra-flexibility and unusual electronic, magnetic and chemical properties of waved graphenes and nanoribbons. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4198.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coaker G, Falick A, Staskawicz B. Activation of a phytopathogenic bacterial effector protein by a eukaryotic cyclophilin. Science. 2005;308(5721):548-550.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Long SB, Tao X, Campbell EB, MacKinnon R. Atomic structure of a voltage-dependent K+ channel in a lipid membrane-like environment. Nature. 2007;450(7168):376-382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Trout J, Rivkin S. Differentiate or Die. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Anwaruddin S, Martin JM, Stephens JC, Askari AT, eds. Cardiovascular Hemodynamics: An Introductory Guide. Humana Press; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Quay J, Seaman J. Moving Past the Confusion. In: Quay J, Seaman J, eds. John Dewey and Education Outdoors: Making Sense of the ‘Educational Situation’ through More than a Century of Progressive Reforms. SensePublishers; 2013:61-82.

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 The Egyptian Heart Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. Is The Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Erupt? IFLScience. August 8, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/yellowstone-supervolcano-about-erupt/

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. Mass Transit Grants: UMTA Needs to Improve Procurement Monitoring at Local Transit Authority. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pecue CJ. Utilizing Audiovisual Stimuli in the Classroom to Facilitate Pronunciation of French Stop Consonants. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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

Baker P. President Backs A Plan to Curtail Legal Migration. New York Times. August 2, 2017:A1.

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	The Egyptian Heart Journal
Abbreviation	Egypt. Heart J.
ISSN (print)	1110-2608
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine