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]

Held I. Climate change. Simplicity amid complexity. Science 2014;343:1206–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pak DTS, Sheng M. Targeted protein degradation and synapse remodeling by an inducible protein kinase. Science 2003;302:1368–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Viswanathan SR, Daley GQ, Gregory RI. Selective blockade of microRNA processing by Lin28. Science 2008;320:97–100.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Subramani A, Alsidawi S, Jagannathan S, Sumita K, Sasaki AT, Aronow B, et al. The brain microenvironment negatively regulates miRNA-768-3p to promote K-ras expression and lung cancer metastasis. Sci Rep 2013;3:2392.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

van Etten WC. Introduction to Random Signals and Noise. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Muñoz-Rojas PA, editor. Optimization of Structures and Components. vol. 43. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Adams JC, Brainerd WS, Hendrickson RA, Maine RE, Martin JT, Smith BT. Declarations. In: Brainerd WS, Hendrickson RA, Maine RE, Martin JT, Smith BT, editors. The Fortran 2003 Handbook: The Complete Syntax, Features and Procedures, London: Springer; 2009, p. 115–69.

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]

Luntz S. Measurable Hallucinations Induced For The First Time. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/measurable-hallucinations-induced-for-the-first-time/ (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. Review of the Emergency School Assistance Program Community Grants Awarded to the Nashville Urban League by the Office of Education, HEW. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sugawara Y. When the Spaniels conquered Central America: Academic English and first year composition instruction. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2013.

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]

Walsh MW. Deal Is Said to Be Close in Detroit’s Bankruptcy. New York Times 2014:A26.

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

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