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

Dangl, J.L., 2007. Plant science. Nibbling at the plant cell nucleus. Science 315, 1088–1089.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacLean, E.L., Hare, B., 2015. Evolution. Dogs hijack the human bonding pathway. Science 348, 280–281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chih, B., Engelman, H., Scheiffele, P., 2005. Control of excitatory and inhibitory synapse formation by neuroligins. Science 307, 1324–1328.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guo, X.-G., Ding, J., Xu, H., Xuan, T.-M., Jin, W.-Q., Yin, X., Shang, Y.-P., Zhang, F.-R., Zhu, J.-H., Zheng, L.-R., 2014. Comprehensive assessment of the association of WNK4 polymorphisms with hypertension: evidence from a meta-analysis. Sci. Rep. 4, 6507.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marti, P., 2013. Theory of Structures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Kučera, L., Kučera, A. (Eds.), 2007. Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2007: 32nd International Symposium, MFCS 2007 Český Krumlov, Czech Republic, August 26-31, 2007 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Miao, Z., Liu, C., Lin, X., 2011. FCM Algorithm Based on Improved Automatic Segmentation of MRI Brain Images, in: Yu, Y., Yu, Z., Zhao, J. (Eds.), Computer Science for Environmental Engineering and EcoInformatics: International Workshop, CSEEE 2011, Kunming, China, July 29-31, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 24–29.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Photographer Captures Squirrel Trying To Steal Jack-o-Lanterns [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/photographer-captures-squirrel-trying-steal-jack-o-lanterns/ (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, 1978. Development of Nontactical Secure Voice Systems (No. LCD-78-129-II). 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

Sahebjame, M., 2012. Marriage: An authentic Iranian experience of the modern (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

Kelly, M., 1992. G.O.P.’s Young Confrontation Corps. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dangl, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Dangl, 2007; MacLean and Hare, 2015).

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

Two authors: (MacLean and Hare, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Guo 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

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