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

Marshall, C.R., 2015. ECOLOGY/PALEONTOLOGY. How stable are food webs during a mass extinction? Science 350, 38–39.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacob, Z., Shalaev, V.M., 2011. Physics. Plasmonics goes quantum. Science 334, 463–464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, C.-Y.T., Poo, M.-M., Dan, Y., 2009. Burst spiking of a single cortical neuron modifies global brain state. Science 324, 643–646.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Naik, A., Buu, O., LaHaye, M.D., Armour, A.D., Clerk, A.A., Blencowe, M.P., Schwab, K.C., 2006. Cooling a nanomechanical resonator with quantum back-action. Nature 443, 193–196.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benslama, M., Boucenna, M.L., Batatia, H., 2015. Ad Hoc Networks Telecommunications and Game Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Castillo, E., 2009. A Unified Statistical Methodology for Modeling Fatigue Damage. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Bandyopadhyay, S., Pal, S.K., 2007. Variable String Lengths in GA-classifier, in: Pal, S.K. (Ed.), Classification and Learning Using Genetic Algorithms: Applications in Bioinformatics and Web Intelligence, Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 109–137.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Scientists Create Functional 3D Brain Tissue [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-create-functional-3d-brain-tissue/ (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, 1973. Bid Rejection Protest (No. B-178720). 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

Curti, C.L., 2017. Talking About Science Interests: The Importance of Feedback Appraisals When Students Talk About Their Interests in STEM (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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. Maker Agrees to Modify a Helmet That Was Decertified. New York Times D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marshall, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Jacob and Shalaev, 2011; Marshall, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Jacob and Shalaev, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Naik et al., 2006)

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