How to format your references using the Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette citation style

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

Robinson A. Ancient civilization: Cracking the Indus script. Nature. 2015;526(7574):499-501.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kawasaki H, Taira K. Induction of DNA methylation and gene silencing by short interfering RNAs in human cells. Nature. 2004;431(7005):211-217.

A journal article with 3 authors

Campbell CT, Parker SC, Starr DE. The effect of size-dependent nanoparticle energetics on catalyst sintering. Science. 2002;298(5594):811-814.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xie H, Wang H, Fu C, et al. The intrinsic disorder related alloy scattering in ZrNiSn half-Heusler thermoelectric materials. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6888.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boeker E, Van Grondelle R. Environmental Physics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Ackerman MS. Resources, Co-Evolution and Artifacts: Theory in CSCW. (Halverson CA, Erickson T, Kellogg WA, eds.). Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Singh J, Mohanty SP, Pradhan DK. 2-Port SRAM Bitcell Design. In: Mohanty SP, Pradhan DK, eds. Robust SRAM Designs and Analysis. Springer; 2013:83-111.

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 Pediatric Association Gazette.

Blog post

Andrew E. Has NASA Really Created A Warp Drive? IFLScience. April 27, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/warp-drives-mars-and-back-time-lunch/

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. Students With Disabilities: More Information and Guidance Could Improve Opportunities in Physical Education and Athletics. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Policarpio AM. Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Typically Developing Siblings, and Parents: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Loewenstein G, Ubel P. Economics Behaving Badly. New York Times. July 15, 2010:A31.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Pediatric Association Gazette
ISSN (print)	1110-6638
Scope