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

Saper CB. Biomedicine. Life, the universe, and body temperature. Science. 2006 Nov 3;314(5800):773–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shank SS, Margoliash D. Sleep and sensorimotor integration during early vocal learning in a songbird. Nature. 2009 Mar 5;458(7234):73–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Howell K, White JG, Hobert O. Spatiotemporal control of a novel synaptic organizer molecule. Nature. 2015 Jul 2;523(7558):83–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zheng XT, You HL, Xu X, Dong ZM. An Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid dinosaur with filamentous integumentary structures. Nature. 2009 Mar 19;458(7236):333–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Killops S, Killops V. Introduction to Organic Geochemistry. Malden, MA USA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.; 2004.

An edited book

Corsi C, Sizov F, editors. THz and Security Applications: Detectors, Sources and Associated Electronics for THz Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. XXXIV, 292 p. 168 illus., 50 illus. in color. (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics).

A chapter in an edited book

Epstein SL, Petrovic S. Learning a Mixture of Search Heuristics. In: Hamadi Y, Monfroy E, Saubion F, editors. Autonomous Search. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 97–127.

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

Hamilton K. The Most Incredible Photographs The Hubble Telescope Has Ever Taken. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. GAO ADP Data Lines: Issue No. 1. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Feb. Report No.: 122631.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hofmann R. The fascist reflection Japan and Italy, 1919-1950 [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2010.

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

Vecsey G. More Teams Would Ruin a Great Thing. New York Times. 2010 Mar 19;B14.

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