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. Weinreich M. Molecular biology: DNA replication reconstructed. Nature. 2015;519:418–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pope BD, Gilbert DM. Genetics: Up and down in Down’s syndrome. Nature. 2014;508:323–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ito T, Woloszyn M, Mazloff M. Anthropogenic carbon dioxide transport in the Southern Ocean driven by Ekman flow. Nature. 2010;463:80–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhang X, Liao L, Wang S, Hu F, Wang C, Zeng Q. Polymerization or cyclic dimerization: solvent dependent homo-coupling of terminal alkynes at HOPG surface. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3899.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sox HC, Higgins MC, Owens DK. Medical Decision Making. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Kurzyński M, Puchała E, Woźniak M, żołnierek A, editors. Computer Recognition Systems: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems CORES ’05. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Goldin GA. Some Comments on Indistinguishable Particles and Interpretation of the Quantum Mechanical Wave Function. In: Kielanowski P, Ali ST, Bieliavsky P, Odzijewicz A, Schlichenmaier M, Voronov T, editors. Geometric Methods in Physics: XXXIV Workshop, Białowieża, Poland, June 28 – July 4, 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 35–43.

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. Andrew D. Can You Solve Einstein’s Riddle? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/solving-einsteins-riddle/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Update on the Readiness of the Social Security Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Feb. Report No.: T-AIMD-99-90.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Perez RW. Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block? The Impact of Prior Military Service on Hiring Managers’ Perceptions of Warmth, Competence, and Hirability [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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. Vecsey G. Scandinavian Cool That Warmed New York. New York Times. 2011 Apr 20;B12.

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

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