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. Kumar S. Extinction need not be forever. Nature. 2012;492:9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Coura JR, Viñas PA. Chagas disease: a new worldwide challenge. Nature. 2010;465:S6-7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Fukuda H, Murase H, Tokuda IT. Controlling circadian rhythms by dark-pulse perturbations in Arabidopsis thaliana. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1533.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Coursol S, Fan L-M, Le Stunff H, Spiegel S, Gilroy S, Assmann SM. Sphingolipid signalling in Arabidopsis guard cells involves heterotrimeric G proteins. Nature. 2003;423:651–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dooner DB. Kinematic Geometry of Gearing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Joye M, Miyaji A, Otsuka A, editors. Pairing-Based Cryptography - Pairing 2010: 4th International Conference, Yamanaka Hot Spring, Japan, December 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mañas P, Vercet A. Effect of PEF on Enzymes and Food Constituents. In: Raso J, Heinz V, editors. Pulsed Electric Fields Technology for the Food Industry: Fundamentals and Applications. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006. p. 131–51.

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. Davis J. The Annual Ozone Hole Over Antarctica Formed Larger And Later In 2015 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/annual-ozone-hole-over-antarctica-formed-larger-and-later-2015/

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. Education Reform: Initial Effects in Four School Districts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Sep. Report No.: PEMD-89-28.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lyzlov A. In Vivo Efficacy of Lanthanum Carbonate on Intestinal Phosphorus Absorption in Stage Five Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Undergoing Peritoneal Dialysis [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

1. Eligon J. Bored, Broke and Armed: The Seeds of South Side Gang Violence. New York Times. 2016 Dec 22;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