How to format your references using the The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Klein, C.A., 2013. Selection and adaptation during metastatic cancer progression. Nature 501, 365–372.
A journal article with 2 authors
Treacy, M.M.J., Borisenko, K.B., 2012. The local structure of amorphous silicon. Science 335, 950–953.
A journal article with 3 authors
Jalili, R., Razal, J.M., Wallace, G.G., 2013. Wet-spinning of PEDOT:PSS/functionalized-SWNTs composite: a facile route toward production of strong and highly conducting multifunctional fibers. Sci. Rep. 3, 3438.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Schofield, P.N., Eppig, J., Huala, E., de Angelis, M.H., Harvey, M., Davidson, D., Weaver, T., Brown, S., Smedley, D., Rosenthal, N., Schughart, K., Aidinis, V., Tocchini-Valentini, G., Hancock, J.M., 2010. Research funding. Sustaining the data and bioresource commons. Science 330, 592–593.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Lemma, A., 2008. Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, West Sussex, England.
An edited book
Zhang, X., Zhong, S., Pan, Z., Wong, K., Yun, R. (Eds.), 2010. Entertainment for Education. Digital Techniques and Systems: 5th International Conference on E-learning and Games, Edutainment 2010, Changchun, China, August 16-18, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Ganduglia-Pirovano, M.V., 2015. Oxygen Defects at Reducible Oxide Surfaces: The Example of Ceria and Vanadia, in: Jupille, J., Thornton, G. (Eds.), Defects at Oxide Surfaces, Springer Series in Surface Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 149–190.

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 Remote Sensing and Space Sciences.

Blog post
O`Callaghan, J., 2016. NASA Is Moving Its Dawn Spacecraft Into A Higher Orbit Around Ceres [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-moving-dawn-spacecraft-higher-orbit-ceres/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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
Government Accountability Office, 1993. NASA Aeronautics: Protecting Sensitive Technology (No. NSIAD-93-201). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Viator, L., 2017. Thanatos (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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
Crow, K., 2001. Many Families Waver on Plans For Holidays. New York Times 58.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Klein, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Klein, 2013; Treacy and Borisenko, 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

  • Two authors: (Treacy and Borisenko, 2012)
  • Three or more authors: (Schofield et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal titleThe Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences
AbbreviationEgypt. J. Remote Sens. Space Sci.
ISSN (print)1110-9823
ScopeGeneral Earth and Planetary Sciences

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