How to format your references using the Egyptian Journal of Petroleum citation style

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

D. Sarewitz, World view: Brick by brick, Nature 465 (2010) 29.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.C. Emerson, N. Kolm, Species diversity can drive speciation, Nature 434 (2005) 1015–1017.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.-Y. Sun, X.-S. Wu, L.-G. Wu, Single and multiple vesicle fusion induce different rates of endocytosis at a central synapse, Nature 417 (2002) 555–559.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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S. Sharma, S. Sarkar, S.S. Paul, S. Roy, K. Chattopadhyay, A small molecule chemical chaperone optimizes its unfolded state contraction and denaturant like properties, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3525.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Tewari, Advanced Control of Aircraft, Spacecraft and Rockets, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

M. Doucleff, Pocket Guide to Biomolecular NMR, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.L. Curry, R.M. Feldman, Multiple-Stage Single-Product Factory Models, in: R.M. Feldman (Ed.), Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Analysis, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 125–157.

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 Petroleum.

Blog post

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J. Fang, Baby Chicks Count From Left to Right Just Like Us, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-chicks-count-left-right-just-us/ (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, Puerto Rico: Characteristics of the Island’s Maritime Trade and Potential Effects of Modifying the Jones Act, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

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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K.L. Zimmerman, Perceived and preferred organizational culture on behavior intentions in the hospitality industry, Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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]

L.F. Burghardt, The Dog Wants to Go Out. Subversive Action Is Likely to Follow, New York Times (2006) 14LI12.

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 Petroleum
ISSN (print)	1110-0621
Scope