How to format your references using the The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research citation style

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

Brooks, B.A., 2012. Geophysics. Seeing is believing. Science 338, 207–208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dangl, J.L., Jones, J.D., 2001. Plant pathogens and integrated defence responses to infection. Nature 411, 826–833.

A journal article with 3 authors

De Marco García, N.V., Karayannis, T., Fishell, G., 2011. Neuronal activity is required for the development of specific cortical interneuron subtypes. Nature 472, 351–355.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Douce, T., Eckstein, A., Walborn, S.P., Khoury, A.Z., Ducci, S., Keller, A., Coudreau, T., Milman, P., 2013. Direct measurement of the biphoton Wigner function through two-photon interference. Sci. Rep. 3, 3530.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fortey, R.A., Bruton, D.L., 2013. Lower Ordovician Trilobites of the Kirtonryggen Formation, Spitsbergen. The Lethaia Foundation, Norway.

An edited book

Schnars, U., 2005. Digital Holography: Digital Hologram Recording, Numerical Reconstruction, and Related Techniques. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Quinn, A.C., Holbrook, S.P., 2010. Critical Care Management of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, in: Adams, J.P., Bell, D., McKinlay, J. (Eds.), Neurocritical Care: A Guide to Practical Management, Competency-Based Critical Care. Springer, London, pp. 33–42.

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 Journal of Aquatic Research.

Blog post

Carpineti, C., 2017. This Incredible Futuristic Hoverbike Is Like Something Straight Out Of Star Wars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-incredible-futuristic-hoverbike-is-like-something-straight-out-of-star-wars/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1996. Space Shuttle: Need to Sustain Launch Risk Assessment Process Improvements (No. NSIAD-96-73). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dhah, S., 2015. The relationship between job-embedded professional development and special education teacher self-efficacy in hard-to-staff middle schools (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Pilon, M., 2014. Encore, for the Curlers and Their Pants. New York Times B15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Brooks, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Brooks, 2012; Dangl and Jones, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Dangl and Jones, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Douce et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research
Abbreviation	Egypt. J. Aquat. Res.
ISSN (print)	1687-4285
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography Water Science and Technology