How to format your references using the Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute citation style

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

Crutzen PJ. Anthropocene man. Nature 2010;467:S10.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Larrick RP, Soll JB. Economics. The MPG illusion. Science 2008;320:1593–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Losonczy A, Makara JK, Magee JC. Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity and input feature storage in neurons. Nature 2008;452:436–41.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

King M-C, Marks JH, Mandell JB, New York Breast Cancer Study Group. Breast and ovarian cancer risks due to inherited mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2. Science 2003;302:643–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Powsner RA, Palmer MR, Powsner ER. Essentials of Nuclear Medicine Physics and Instrumentation. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Wiendahl H-P. Handbook Factory Planning and Design. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D’Amico S, De Matteis M, Rousseaux O, Philips K, Gyselinck B, Neirynck D, et al. Ultra Wide Band in Medical Applications. In: Mukhopadhyay SC, Lay-Ekuakille A, editors. Advances in Biomedical Sensing, Measurements, Instrumentation and Systems, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 43–60.

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 Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. The Neural Basis For Psychosomatic Illness May Have Been Discovered. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/neural-basis-psychosomatic-illness-discovered/ (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. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Improved Risk Analysis Could Strengthen FAA’s Global Interoperability Efforts. 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]

Pelser CR. Interpretation of Aaron Copland’s Duo for Flute and Piano. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Judah B. London rolls out the kleptocrats’ carpet. New York Times 2016:A9.

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	Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute
Abbreviation	J. Egypt. Natl. Canc. Inst.
ISSN (print)	1110-0362
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology