How to format your references using the Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis. 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]

J.M. Thornton, From genome to function, Science 292 (2001) 2095–2097.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Brookes, E. Etkina, SPORE series winner. Physical phenomena in real time, Science 330 (2010) 605–606.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N.K. Chaudhari, M.Y. Song, J.-S. Yu, Heteroatom-doped highly porous carbon from human urine, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5221.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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I. Berman-Frank, P. Lundgren, Y.B. Chen, H. Küpper, Z. Kolber, B. Bergman, P. Falkowski, Segregation of nitrogen fixation and oxygenic photosynthesis in the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium, Science 294 (2001) 1534–1537.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.L. Horstmeyer, The Weather Almanac, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

M. Fioranelli, Cardiologia dello Sport: Diagnostica e clinica cardiovascolare, Springer, Milano, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

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D. Boucas, National variations of the information society: Evidence from the Greek case, in: C. Avgerou, M.L. Smith, P. van der Besselaar (Eds.), Social Dimensions Of Information And Communication Technology Policy: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC8), IFIP TC 9, Pretoria, South Africa, September 25-26, 2008, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2008: pp. 63–79.

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 Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis.

Blog post

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J. Fang, Scientists Double The Size Of Ants, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-shrink-ants-study-how-environment-affects-size/ (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

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Government Accountability Office, Airport and Airway Trust Fund: Less Than Half of Noncommercial Jet Fuel Tax Receipts Are Transferred, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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G.M. Spisak, Particulation, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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

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M. Isaac, Uber’s Use of ‘Greyball’ Tool to Evade Authorities Spurs U.S. Inquiry, New York Times (2017) B3.

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 Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis
Abbreviation	Egypt. J. Chest Dis. Tuberc.
ISSN (print)	0422-7638
Scope	Infectious Diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine