How to format your references using the Israel Medical Association Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Israel Medical Association Journal (IMAJ). 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. Nicholson DW. From bench to clinic with apoptosis-based therapeutic agents. Nature 2000; 407 (6805):810–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hirschberg J, Manning CD. Advances in natural language processing. Science 2015; 349 (6245):261–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dubilier N, McFall-Ngai M, Zhao L. Microbiology: Create a global microbiome effort. Nature 2015; 526 (7575):631–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhang Y-X, Perry K, Vinci VA, Powell K, Stemmer WPC, del Cardayré SB. Genome shuffling leads to rapid phenotypic improvement in bacteria. Nature 2002; 415 (6872):644–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dunlop J, Girma D, Irvine J. Digital Mobile Communications and the Tetra System. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2013.

An edited book

1. Levin SA ed. Games, Groups, and the Global Good. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Vasileva-Stojanovska T, Trajkovik V. Modeling a Quality of Experience Aware Distance Educational System. In: Trajkovik V, Anastas M, eds. ICT Innovations 2013: ICT Innovations and Education. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, 2014:45–55.

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 Medical Association Journal.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. ExoMars Lander Crash Site Found. IFLScience 2016.

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. Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Modernization Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hoang V. Software maintenance: A program slicer using cross referencer. 2009.

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. Novick SM. Authentic Mexican Flavors for Summer. New York Times. June 14, 2015:LI8.

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 Medical Association Journal
ISSN (print)	1565-1088
Scope