How to format your references using the Egyptian Informatics Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Egyptian Informatics 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 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

[1]

Südhof TC. Neuroligins and neurexins link synaptic function to cognitive disease. Nature 2008;455:903–11.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Frank J, Agrawal RK. A ratchet-like inter-subunit reorganization of the ribosome during translocation. Nature 2000;406:318–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kim VN, Kataoka N, Dreyfuss G. Role of the nonsense-mediated decay factor hUpf3 in the splicing-dependent exon-exon junction complex. Science 2001;293:1832–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Malmgren RD, Stouffer DB, Campanharo ASLO, Amaral LAN. On universality in human correspondence activity. Science 2009;325:1696–700.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Li FM, Nathan A, Wu Y, Ong BS. Organic Thin Film Transistor Integration. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Yu PS, Han J, Faloutsos C, editors. Link Mining: Models, Algorithms, and Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aust HP. The Normative Environment for Peace – On the Contribution of the ILC’s Articles on State Responsibility. In: Nolte G, editor. Peace through International Law: The Role of the International Law Commission. A Colloquium at the Occasion of its Sixtieth Anniversary, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 13–46.

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 Egyptian Informatics Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Evans K. Here’s The Easiest Way To Undo The Harms Of Sitting All Day. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/heres-the-easiest-way-to-undo-the-harms-of-sitting-all-day/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Responses to Questions for the Record; September 2008 Hearing on the Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status and Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Coulibaly I. Influence of Gender and Age on the Performance of a PBIS program: Quantitative Analysis of Secondary Data from a Midwestern Suburban Public Middle School. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood 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

[1]

Johnson G. After 1.7 Million Years, a Bone Cancer Diagnosis. New York Times 2016:D3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Egyptian Informatics Journal
Abbreviation	Egypt. Inform. J.
ISSN (print)	1110-8665
Scope	Computer Science Applications Information Systems Management Science and Operations Research