How to format your references using the The Egyptian Journal of Critical Care Medicine citation style

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

[1]

Miller RJD. Femtosecond crystallography with ultrabright electrons and x-rays: capturing chemistry in action. Science 2014;343:1108–16.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Maruyama D, Zochowski M. Competition and cooperation between active intra-network and passive extra-network transport processes. Sci Rep 2014;4:5269.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Morris M, Uchida K, Do T. A magnetic torsional wave near the Galactic Centre traced by a “double helix” nebula. Nature 2006;440:308–10.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cummings DAT, Irizarry RA, Huang NE, Endy TP, Nisalak A, Ungchusak K, et al. Travelling waves in the occurrence of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Thailand. Nature 2004;427:344–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Moore RG, Garland A. Cognitive Therapy for Chronic and Persistent Depression. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Les Z. Shape Understanding System: The First Steps toward the Visual Thinking Machines. vol. 86. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hu W, Zha L. Theoretical Aspects of Polymer Crystallization. In: Mitchell GR, Tojeira A, editors. Controlling the Morphology of Polymers: Multiple Scales of Structure and Processing, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 101–43.

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 Critical Care Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. A Cargo Ship has Finally Docked with the ISS. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/russia-successfully-launches-progress-m-28m-spacecraft-supplies-iss/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Proposed Regulation Prescribing New “Fixed-Price Options” " Provisions for Use in Automatic Data Processing Systems Procurement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Murray BA. Sociocultural factors in women’s health in Swaziland. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana 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

[1]

Wilson M. Prosecutors Say Chelsea Bombing Suspect Had ‘Evil in His Heart.’ New York Times 2017:A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Journal of Critical Care Medicine
ISSN (print)	2090-7303
Scope

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