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]

Blázquez MA. Plant science. The right time and place for making flowers. Science 2005;309:1024–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wright KP Jr, Czeisler CA. Absence of circadian phase resetting in response to bright light behind the knees. Science 2002;297:571.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Alitalo K, Tammela T, Petrova TV. Lymphangiogenesis in development and human disease. Nature 2005;438:946–53.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kravchenko JE, Rogozin IB, Koonin EV, Chumakov PM. Transcription of mammalian messenger RNAs by a nuclear RNA polymerase of mitochondrial origin. Nature 2005;436:735–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Smed J, Hakonen H. Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Harder H, Mittler B, editors. Asian Punches: A Transcultural Affair. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Auzel F. Up-conversions in RE-doped Solids. In: Hull R, Parisi J, Osgood RM, Warlimont H, Liu G, Jacquier B, editors. Spectroscopic Properties of Rare Earths in Optical Materials, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005, p. 266–319.

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]

Andrew E. Origins of Human Heart Beat Traced Back One Billion Years. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/origins-human-heart-beat-traced-back-one-billion-years/ (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. Aviation Security: FAA Can Help Ensure That Airports’ Access Control Systems Are Cost-Effective. 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]

Tubbs MA. The use of hand-constructed graphs in Microcomputer-Based Laboratories for kinematics instruction. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Johnson G. Awakenings. New York Times 2017:BR13.

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