How to format your references using the Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Gonzalez, C., 2015. Cell division: A last-minute decision. Nature 528, 196–197.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bennett, C.H., DiVincenzo, D.P., 2000. Quantum information and computation. Nature 404, 247–255.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhong, Y., Zhang, L., Su, D., 2000. Collaborations tailored for bioinformatics projects. Science 290, 2074a.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ahn, D.-G., Kourakis, M.J., Rohde, L.A., Silver, L.M., Ho, R.K., 2002. T-box gene tbx5 is essential for formation of the pectoral limb bud. Nature 417, 754–758.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davies, G., 2005. Designing and Developing Scalable IP Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Rullière, C. (Ed.), 2005. Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Principles and Experiments, Second Edition. ed, Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Huang, J., Pandit, C., Meyn, S.P., Médard, M., Veeravalli, V., 2007. Entropy, Inference, and Channel Coding, in: Agrawal, P., Fleming, P.J., Zhang, L., Andrews, D.M., Yin, G. (Eds.), Wireless Communications, The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 99–124.

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 Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. How To Argue With Anti-Vaxxers, According To Science [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/simple-method-proves-effective-countering-anti-vaccination-attitudes/ (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, 1996. Tax Systems Modernization: Actions Underway But Management and Technical Weaknesses Not Yet Corrected (No. T-AIMD-96-165). 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

Kelly, L.A., 2009. Nursing surveillance in the acute care setting: Latent variable development and analysis (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Alvarez, L., 2017. Pandemonium Followed Rumor of Second Airport Attacker. New York Times A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gonzalez, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bennett and DiVincenzo, 2000; Gonzalez, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bennett and DiVincenzo, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Ahn et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences
ISSN (print)	2314-8535
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