How to format your references using the Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences citation style

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

[1]

Landolt HP. CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS. Caffeine, the circadian clock, and sleep. Science 2015;349:1289.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ohlstein B, Spradling A. Multipotent Drosophila intestinal stem cells specify daughter cell fates by differential notch signaling. Science 2007;315:988–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Seidel HS, Rockman MV, Kruglyak L. Widespread genetic incompatibility in C. elegans maintained by balancing selection. Science 2008;319:589–94.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Smart N, Bollini S, Dubé KN, Vieira JM, Zhou B, Davidson S, et al. De novo cardiomyocytes from within the activated adult heart after injury. Nature 2011;474:640–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Reinke P. Inorganic Nanostructures. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Strayer SM, Reynolds PL, Ebell MH, editors. Handhelds in Medicine: A Practical Guide for Clinicians. New York, NY: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lu CC, Li CC, Chen H. How Robust Is a Probabilistic Neural VLSI System Against Environmental Noise. In: Prevost L, Marinai S, Schwenker F, editors. Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition: Third IAPR Workshop, ANNPR 2008 Paris, France, July 2-4, 2008 Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 44–53.

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 Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Gut microbe therapy reduces autism-like symptoms in mice. IFLScience 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gut-microbe-therapy-reduces-autism-symptoms-mice/ (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. Older Adults: Federal Strategy Needed to Help Ensure Efficient and Effective Delivery of Home and Community-Based Services and Supports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Reece JK. Reservoir Facies Analysis of Middle Miocene Turbidites in Marlin, Dorado, and Nile Fields; Viosca Knoll, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 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]

Baker P, Kaplan T, Shear MD. Trump Bypasses G.O.P. To Strike a Deal on Debt. New York Times 2017:A1.

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 Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences
ISSN (print)	2314-808X
Scope