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. Grayson M. Agriculture and drought. Nature. 2013;501:S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kwon O-H, Zewail AH. 4D electron tomography. Science. 2010;328:1668–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Turner WR, Oppenheimer M, Wilcove DS. A force to fight global warming. Nature. 2009;462:278–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bernardi R, Guernah I, Jin D, Grisendi S, Alimonti A, Teruya-Feldstein J, et al. PML inhibits HIF-1alpha translation and neoangiogenesis through repression of mTOR. Nature. 2006;442:779–85.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Anderson JC, Naeim F. Basic Structural Dynamics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Catania B, Ivanović M, Thalheim B, editors. Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 14th East European Conference, ADBIS 2010, Novi Sad, Serbia, September 20-24, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Aziz AA, Klein MCA, Treur J. Intelligent Configuration of Social Support Networks Around Depressed Persons. In: Peleg M, Lavrač N, Combi C, editors. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011, Bled, Slovenia, July 2-6, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 24–34.

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. Evans K. Yosemite National Park Grows By 400 Acres In Largest Expansion In 70 Years [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/yosemite-national-park-grows-by-400-acres-in-largest-expansion-in-70-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. Vocational Education: Status in 2-Year Colleges in 1990-91 and Early Signs of Change. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Aug. Report No.: HRD-93-89.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Chung TY-Y. Pulse designs on TR-MAS UWB [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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. Greenhouse L. PRISONERS GAIN IN SUIT ATTACKING LETHAL INJECTION. New York Times. 2006 Jun 13;A1.

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