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. Carlson RW. Planetary science: A new recipe for Earth formation. Nature 2015; 520 (7547):299–300.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dawson RI, Chiang E. A class of warm Jupiters with mutually inclined, apsidally misaligned close friends. Science 2014; 346 (6206):212–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ren A, Rajashankar KR, Patel DJ. Fluoride ion encapsulation by Mg2+ ions and phosphates in a fluoride riboswitch. Nature 2012; 486 (7401):85–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kurakawa T, Ueda N, Maekawa M, et al. Direct control of shoot meristem activity by a cytokinin-activating enzyme. Nature 2007; 445 (7128):652–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Spotte S. Tarpons. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016.

An edited book

1. Aspray W. Formal and Informal Approaches to Food Policy. (Royer G, Ocepek MG, eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Croxatto JO. Mechanisms of Tumor Metastasis in the Orbit. In: Karcioglu ZA, ed. Orbital Tumors: Diagnosis and Treatment. New York, NY: Springer, 2015:29–36.

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. Andrew E. Scientists Discover How This Beautiful Shimmering Creature Turns Invisible. IFLScience 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. Electronic Government: Potential Exists for Enhancing Collaboration on Four Initiatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Senaga KA. Tasteless, cheap, and southern? The rise and decline of the farm-raised catfish industry. 2016.

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. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Belarus: European Official Expelled. New York Times. September 13, 2002:A9.

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