How to format your references using the The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear 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]

Shiflet G. Materials science. The more elements, the merrier. Science 2003;300:443–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dawson TM, Dawson VL. Molecular pathways of neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease. Science 2003;302:819–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tagkopoulos I, Liu Y-C, Tavazoie S. Predictive behavior within microbial genetic networks. Science 2008;320:1313–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Schmidt D, Wilson MD, Ballester B, Schwalie PC, Brown GD, Marshall A, et al. Five-vertebrate ChIP-seq reveals the evolutionary dynamics of transcription factor binding. Science 2010;328:1036–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Evans AW. Economics, Real Estate and the Supply of Land. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

LaRochelle WJ, Shimkets RA, editors. The Oncogenomics Handbook. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ellinger AD, Hamlin RG, Beattie RS, Wang Y-L, McVicar O. Managerial Coaching as a Workplace Learning Strategy. In: Poell RF, Woerkom M van, editors. Supporting Workplace Learning: Towards Evidence-based Practice, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011, p. 71–87.

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 Radiology and Nuclear Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Endangered Sawfish Have Virgin Births. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/endangered-sawfish-have-virgin-births/ (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. Personnel Security: Pass and Security Clearance Data for the Executive Office of the President. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Immaneni RN. An efficient approach to machine learning based text classification through distributed computing. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Hollander S. Princeton’s Atkinson Won’t Let Injuries Stop Him. New York Times 2002:D3.

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 Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
ISSN (print)	0378-603X
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging