How to format your references using the Journal of Israeli History citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Israeli History. 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	Download the output style file
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

Croce, Roberta. “Structural Biology. A Close View of Photosystem I.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348, no. 6238 (May 29, 2015): 970–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hochedlinger, Konrad, and Rudolf Jaenisch. “Nuclear Reprogramming and Pluripotency.” Nature 441, no. 7097 (June 29, 2006): 1061–67.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lustig, Robert H., Laura A. Schmidt, and Claire D. Brindis. “Public Health: The Toxic Truth about Sugar.” Nature 482, no. 7383 (February 1, 2012): 27–29.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhao, Huaixia, Liuyi Li, Yangxin Wang, and Ruihu Wang. “Shape-Controllable Formation of Poly-Imidazolium Salts for Stable Palladium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Polymers.” Scientific Reports 4 (June 27, 2014): 5478.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chatterji, Subhrendu, and Paul Hedges. Loan Workouts and Debt for Equity Swaps. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005.

An edited book

Juang, Jengnan, and Yi-Cheng Huang, eds. Intelligent Technologies and Engineering Systems. Vol. 234. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. New York, NY: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Aussel, Jean-Daniel, Jerome d’Annoville, Laurent Castillo, Stephane Durand, Thierry Fabre, Karen Lu, and Asad Ali. “Smart Cards and Remote Entrusting.” In Future of Trust in Computing: Proceedings of the First International Conference Future of Trust in Computing 2008, edited by David Gawrock, Helmut Reimer, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, and Claire Vishik, 38–45. Wiesbaden: Vieweg+Teubner, 2009.

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 Journal of Israeli History.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. “Can You Figure Out Where The ‘Missing Coin’ Goes In This Viral Brain Teaser?” IFLScience. IFLScience, May 9, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/can-you-figure-out-missing-coin-brain-teaser/.

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

Government Accountability Office. “Student Financial Aid: Need Determination Could Be Enhanced through Improvements in Education’s Estimate of Applicants’ State Tax Payments.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 21, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harris, Abril N. “Deadly Force: Perceptions of Police and Exploration of Strategies Used by African American Mothers to Protect Their Sons.” Doctoral dissertation, 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

Meier, Barry, and Jesse Drucker. “Russian Seeks Immunity To Help Congress Panels.” New York Times, May 26, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Israeli History
Abbreviation	J. Isr. Hist.
ISSN (print)	1353-1042
ISSN (online)	1744-0548
Scope	History Cultural Studies Political Science and International Relations