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:

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

Sanderson, K., 2007. Display of flexibility. Nature 445, 473.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pascual-Leone, A., Walsh, V., 2001. Fast backprojections from the motion to the primary visual area necessary for visual awareness. Science 292, 510–512.

A journal article with 3 authors

Timm, R.M., Ramey, R.R., 2nd, Nomenclature Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists, 2005. What constitutes a proper description? Science 309, 2163–6; author reply 2163-6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kornmann, B., Currie, E., Collins, S.R., Schuldiner, M., Nunnari, J., Weissman, J.S., Walter, P., 2009. An ER-mitochondria tethering complex revealed by a synthetic biology screen. Science 325, 477–481.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baldwin, C.J., 2015. The 10 Principles of Food Industry Sustainability. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Martinez, J.E. (Ed.), 2011. A Performatory Approach to Teaching, Learning and Technology, Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Le Cadre, H., Bouhtou, M., Tuffin, B., 2009. A Pricing Model for a Mobile Network Operator Sharing Limited Resource with a Mobile Virtual Network Operator, in: Reichl, P., Stiller, B., Tuffin, B. (Eds.), Network Economics for Next Generation Networks: 6th International Workshop on Internet Charging and Qos Technologies, ICQT 2009, Aachen, Germany, May 11-15, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 24–35.

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

Luntz, S., 2016. How A Fungus Could Recycle Your Smartphone [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-a-fungus-could-recycle-your-smartphone/ (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, 1987. Patent Policy: Recent Changes in Federal Law Considered Beneficial (No. RCED-87-44). 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

Marquez, R.A., 2009. Examining coping skills used to deal with daily stressors of law enforcement (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2008. In Court Ruling On Executions, A Factual Flaw. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sanderson, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Pascual-Leone and Walsh, 2001; Sanderson, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Pascual-Leone and Walsh, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kornmann et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences
Abbreviation	Egypt. J. Remote Sens. Space Sci.
ISSN (print)	1110-9823
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences