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

Morgan B. Research impact: income for outcome. Nature. 2014 Jul 24;511(7510):S72-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sivanand S, Wellen KE. Molecular biology: Salvaging the genome. Nature. 2015 Aug 6;524(7563):40–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Renault L, Guibert B, Cherfils J. Structural snapshots of the mechanism and inhibition of a guanine nucleotide exchange factor. Nature. 2003 Dec 4;426(6966):525–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang C, Yu S, Chen W, Sun C. Highly efficient light-trapping structure design inspired by natural evolution. Sci Rep. 2013 Jan 3;3:1025.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paschedag AR. CFD in der Verfahrenstechnik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

Kantak KM, Wettstein JG, editors. Cognitive Enhancement. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. VIII, 470 p. 30 illus., 24 illus. in color. (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology; vol. 228).

A chapter in an edited book

Man J, Goldberg DJ. Laser Treatment of Unwanted Hair. In: Goldberg DJ, editor. Laser Dermatology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 65–88.

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

Hale T. UN Finally Owns Up To Their Role In the Haiti Cholera Outbreak [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/un-finally-owns-up-to-their-role-in-the-haiti-cholera-outbreak/

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. Student Loans: Oversight of Servicemembers’ Interest Rate Cap Could Be Strengthened. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Nov. Report No.: GAO-17-4.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cruz S. Keeping families together: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Koblin J, Grynbaum MM. An Anchor Becomes the News. New York Times. 2017 Jan 4;B1.

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