How to format your references using the The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research. 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

Koen, D., 2004. Introductory matters. Nature 429, 584.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beckmann, R., Herrmann, J.M., 2015. Structural biology. Mitoribosome oddities. Science 348, 288–289.

A journal article with 3 authors

Guo, G., Wang, W., Bradley, A., 2004. Mismatch repair genes identified using genetic screens in Blm-deficient embryonic stem cells. Nature 429, 891–895.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aliotta, F., Giaquinta, P.V., Ponterio, R.C., Prestipino, S., Saija, F., Salvato, G., Vasi, C., 2014. Supercooled water escaping from metastability. Sci. Rep. 4, 7230.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benslama, M., Kiamouche, W., Batatia, H., 2015. Connections Management Strategies in Satellite Cellular Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lyons, A.C., 2012. Customer-Driven Supply Chains: From Glass Pipelines to Open Innovation Networks, Decision Engineering. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Mayerhofer, T., Langer, P., Wimmer, M., Kappel, G., 2013. xMOF: Executable DSMLs Based on fUML, in: Erwig, M., Paige, R.F., Wyk, E.V. (Eds.), Software Language Engineering: 6th International Conference, SLE 2013, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 26-28, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 56–75.

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 The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Cassini Captures Gorgeous Shots Of Two Moons Peeking Through Saturn’s Rings [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1988. Civil Agency Aircraft: Agencies’ Use of Certain Aircraft to Transport Passengers (No. GGD-88-92BR). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Copeland, A.D., 2013. A qualitative study of clinical oncology nurses’ perceptions of work-life balance (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Returning, and Inspiring the Likes of Spielberg. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Koen, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Beckmann and Herrmann, 2015; Koen, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Beckmann and Herrmann, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Aliotta et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research
Abbreviation	Egypt. J. Aquat. Res.
ISSN (print)	1687-4285
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography Water Science and Technology