How to format your references using the Zagazig University Medical Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Zagazig University Medical Journal. 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

Rainey PB. Unity from conflict. Nature. 2007 Apr 5;446(7136):616.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seeber L, Armbruster JG. Earthquakes as beacons of stress change. Nature. 2000 Sep 7;407(6800):69–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang Y, Zhang Y, Ha Y. Crystal structure of a rhomboid family intramembrane protease. Nature. 2006 Nov 9;444(7116):179–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bienvenu F, Jirawatnotai S, Elias JE, Meyer CA, Mizeracka K, Marson A, et al. Transcriptional role of cyclin D1 in development revealed by a genetic-proteomic screen. Nature. 2010 Jan 21;463(7279):374–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

May V, Kühn O. Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Molecular Systems. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2007.

An edited book

Liberty J. Pro Windows 8.1 Development with XAML and C#. Japikse P, Galloway J, editors. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2014. XVI, 352 p. 247 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Yeakley JA. Urban Hydrology in the Pacific Northwest. In: Yeakley JA, Maas-Hebner KG, Hughes RM, editors. Wild Salmonids in the Urbanizing Pacific Northwest. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 59–74.

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 Zagazig University Medical Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. Produce from the World’s First Underground Urban Farm is About to Hit Shelves [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/produce-worlds-first-underground-urban-farm-about-hit-shelves/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Actions Needed on Electronic Data Exchanges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Jul. Report No.: AIMD-98-124.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Angervil G. Administrative Discretion in Public Policy Implementation: The Case of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 2017.

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

Saslow L. Unexpected State Aid to Ease School Taxes. New York Times. 2008 Apr 20;LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Zagazig University Medical Journal
ISSN (print)	1110-1431
Scope