How to format your references using the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Israel Journal of Health Policy 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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. Rees MJ. Piecing together the biggest puzzle of all. Science. 2000;290:1919–25.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pohrt R, Popov VL. Contact stiffness of randomly rough surfaces. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3293.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Krishnamurthy H, Piscitelli CL, Gouaux E. Unlocking the molecular secrets of sodium-coupled transporters. Nature. 2009;459:347–55.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lu C, Hu N, Yang M, Xia S, Wang H, Wang J, et al. High magnetic field phase diagram in electron-doped manganites La(0.4)Ca(0.6)Mn(1-y)Cr(y)O3. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4902.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cretu O, Stewart R, Berends T. Risk Management for Design and Construction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Hörner W, Döbert H, Reuter LR, Kopp B von, editors. The Education Systems of Europe. 2nd ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Molchan G. Space—Time Earthquake Prediction: The Error Diagrams. In: Savage MK, Rhoades DA, Smith EGC, Gerstenberger MC, Vere-Jones D, editors. Seismogenesis and Earthquake Forecasting: The Frank Evison Volume II. Basel: Springer; 2010. p. 53–63.

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 Israel Journal of Health Policy Research.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Populations of a Superabundant Bird Collapsed in Just 25 Years [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-population-superabundant-bird-collapsed-just-25-years/

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. Meeting the Aviation Challenges of the 1990s: Experts Define Key Problems and Identify Emerging Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Jul. Report No.: RCED-91-152.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Haire KK. Elucidation of the Role of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase in Drug-Induced Toxicity [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2015.

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. Protess B, Ivory D. Bill to Weaken Dodd-Frank’s Rules on Private Equity Nears House Vote. New York Times. 2016 Sep 8;B3.

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	Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
Abbreviation	Isr. J. Health Policy Res.
ISSN (online)	2045-4015
Scope	Health Policy Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health