How to format your references using the Zagazig University Medical Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Zagazig University Medical Journal. 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

Macilwain C. Bell Labs win superconductivity patent. Nature. 2000 Jan 13;403(6766):121–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoppler S, Wheeler GN. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. It’s about time for neural crest. Science. 2015 Jun 19;348(6241):1316–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Feldon DF, Maher MA, Timmerman BE. Graduate education. Performance-based data in the study of STEM Ph.D. education. Science. 2010 Jul 16;329(5989):282–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Catherall AT, Eaves L, King PJ, Booth SR. Magnetic levitation: Floating gold in cryogenic oxygen. Nature. 2003 Apr 10;422(6932):579.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Albright RD. Death of the Chesapeake. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Pavese F, Forbes AB, editors. Data Modeling for Metrology and Testing in Measurement Science. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2009. XVIII, 486 p. 111 illus. (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology).

A chapter in an edited book

Kitahara MV, Fukami H, Benzoni F, Huang D. The New Systematics of Scleractinia: Integrating Molecular and Morphological Evidence. In: Goffredo S, Dubinsky Z, editors. The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future: The world of Medusa and her sisters. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 41–59.

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 Zagazig University Medical Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. Genetic Analysis Reveals Human Role in Moa’s Extinction. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Space Station: NASA’s Software Development Approach Increases Safety and Cost Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Jun. Report No.: IMTEC-92-39.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Monterosa VM. Digital Citizenship District-Wide: Examining the Organizational Evolution of an Initiative [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Shpigel B. Steelers Flex Muscle, on Ground and Through the Air. New York Times. 2017 Jan 8;D3.

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	Zagazig University Medical Journal
ISSN (print)	1110-1431
Scope