How to format your references using the The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences. 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

Schweitzer, G.E., 2008. Policy. Science policy in Kazakhstan. Science 322, 1474–1475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elbaz, D., Cesarsky, C.J., 2003. A fossil record of galaxy encounters. Science 300, 270–274.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tang, C., Schwieters, C.D., Clore, G.M., 2007. Open-to-closed transition in apo maltose-binding protein observed by paramagnetic NMR. Nature 449, 1078–1082.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pommier, A., Anaparthy, N., Memos, N., Kelley, Z.L., Gouronnec, A., Yan, R., Auffray, C., Albrengues, J., Egeblad, M., Iacobuzio-Donahue, C.A., Lyons, S.K., Fearon, D.T., 2018. Unresolved endoplasmic reticulum stress engenders immune-resistant, latent pancreatic cancer metastases. Science 360.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Freeman, R.L., 2002. Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Tavares, J.M.R.S., Luo, X., Li, S. (Eds.), 2014. Bio-Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations, Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Aschieri, F., Zorzi, M., 2013. Non-determinism, Non-termination and the Strong Normalization of System T, in: Hasegawa, M. (Ed.), Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications: 11th International Conference, TLCA 2013, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 26-28, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 31–47.

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 Remote Sensing and Space Sciences.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. New Method Helps Astronomers Directly Image Exoplanets Around Distant Stars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-method-helps-astronomers-directly-image-exoplanets-around-distant-stars/ (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, 1998. Year 2000 Computing: EFT 99 Is Not Expected to Affect Year 2000 Remediation Efforts (No. AIMD-98-272R). 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

Wheat, B.R., 2015. Effects of intercropping switchgrass in managed pine stands on plant communities and white-tailed deer forage production (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Schwartz, J., 2017. When an Executive Acts Like a Spoiled Brat. New York Times BU14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schweitzer, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Elbaz and Cesarsky, 2003; Schweitzer, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Elbaz and Cesarsky, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Pommier et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences
Abbreviation	Egypt. J. Remote Sens. Space Sci.
ISSN (print)	1110-9823
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences