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]

Cale CM. Forensic DNA evidence is not infallible. Nature 2015;526:611.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Both C, Visser ME. Adjustment to climate change is constrained by arrival date in a long-distance migrant bird. Nature 2001;411:296–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Iwamoto M, Matsunaga S, Oiki S. Paradoxical one-ion pore behavior of the long β-helical peptide of marine cytotoxic polytheonamide B. Sci Rep 2014;4:3636.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Dyachok O, Isakov Y, Sågetorp J, Tengholm A. Oscillations of cyclic AMP in hormone-stimulated insulin-secreting beta-cells. Nature 2006;439:349–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nógrádi M. Stereoselective Synthesis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Bezhanishvili N, Goranko V, editors. Lectures on Logic and Computation: ESSLLI 2010 Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2010, ESSLLI 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 2011, Selected Lecture Notes. vol. 7388. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

De Masellis R, Ghidini C, Ranise S. A Declarative Framework for Specifying and Enforcing Purpose-Aware Policies. In: Foresti S, editor. Security and Trust Management: 11th International Workshop, STM 2015, Vienna, Austria, September 21-22, 2015, Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 55–71.

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. Rosetta’s Alice Instrument Returns First Science Data. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-s-alice-instrument-returns-first-science-data/ (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. Comments on Bill To Amend NASA Act of 1958. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1966.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Scaringe JG. An investigation into the faculty development practices in chiropractic education programs. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Kishkovsky S. Russia: 2 Arrested After Band’s Protest At Moscow Cathedral to Remain Jailed. New York Times 2012:A10.

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