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

Rodriguez, I., 2014. Neurobiology: To care or not to care. Nature 509, 294–296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuncel, N.R., Hezlett, S.A., 2007. Assessment. Standardized tests predict graduate students’ success. Science 315, 1080–1081.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferrand, Y., Crump, M.P., Davis, A.P., 2007. A synthetic lectin analog for biomimetic disaccharide recognition. Science 318, 619–622.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, X.-W., Chen, J.-J., Huang, Y.-X., Sun, X.-F., Sheng, G.-P., Li, D.-B., Xiong, L., Zhang, Y.-Y., Zhao, F., Yu, H.-Q., 2014. Experimental and theoretical demonstrations for the mechanism behind enhanced microbial electron transfer by CNT network. Sci. Rep. 4, 3732.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Labadie, N., Prins, C., Prodhon, C., 2016. Metaheuristics for Vehicle Routing Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Evens, A.M., Blum, K.A. (Eds.), 2015. Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: Pathology, Imaging, and Current Therapy, Cancer Treatment and Research. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Varekamp, J.C., 2015. The Chemical Composition and Evolution of Volcanic Lakes, in: Rouwet, D., Christenson, B., Tassi, F., Vandemeulebrouck, J. (Eds.), Volcanic Lakes, Advances in Volcanology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 93–123.

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

Hale, T., 2017. Timelapse Shows A Wall Of Smog Descend On Beijing Within Minutes [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1976. Rotation Policies and Practices Have Been Changed for the Better--But Room for Improvement Remains (No. FPCD-76-45). 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

Fister, T.W., 2017. Activating the art classroom: Combining critical pedagogy, visual culture and socially engaged art to promote agency amongst high school students (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

Kishkovsky, S., 2000. Restructuring At the Bolshoi Costs Director His Position. New York Times E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rodriguez, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kuncel and Hezlett, 2007; Rodriguez, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kuncel and Hezlett, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

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