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

Orgel, Leslie E. “Molecular Biology. Retrospective: Francis Crick (1916-2004).” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305, no. 5687 (August 20, 2004): 1118.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gui, Chengcheng, and Jian Wang. “Silicon-Organic Hybrid Slot Waveguide Based Three-Input Multicasted Optical Hexadecimal Addition/Subtraction.” Scientific Reports 4 (December 15, 2014): 7491.

A journal article with 3 authors

Garlaschelli, Diego, Guido Caldarelli, and Luciano Pietronero. “Universal Scaling Relations in Food Webs.” Nature 423, no. 6936 (May 8, 2003): 165–68.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kalsin, Alexander M., Marcin Fialkowski, Maciej Paszewski, Stoyan K. Smoukov, Kyle J. M. Bishop, and Bartosz A. Grzybowski. “Electrostatic Self-Assembly of Binary Nanoparticle Crystals with a Diamond-like Lattice.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 312, no. 5772 (April 21, 2006): 420–24.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertolini, Luca, Bernhard Elsener, Pietro Pedeferri, and Rob B. Polder. Corrosion of Steel in Concrete. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2003.

An edited book

Diamanti-Kandarakis, Evanthia, and Nadir R. Farid, eds. Diagnosis and Management of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Riga, Paraskevi, Georgios Kouroupetroglou, and Polyxeni-Parthena Ioannidou. “An Evaluation Methodology of Math-to-Speech in Non-English DAISY Digital Talking Books.” In Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 15th International Conference, ICCHP 2016, Linz, Austria, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings, Part I, edited by Klaus Miesenberger, Christian Bühler, and Petr Penaz, 27–34. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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

Taub, Ben. “Lack Of Activity In The Brain’s Empathy Center May Explain Psychopathic Personality Types.” IFLScience. IFLScience, August 18, 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

Government Accountability Office. “Digital Broadcast Television Transition: Several Challenges Could Arise in Administering a Subsidy Program for DTV Equipment.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 26, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boudreau, Paul Davis. “Orthogonality in Natural Products Workflows.” Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2015.

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

Kishkovsky, Sophia. “Bolshoi Theater to Undergo Major Reconstruction.” New York Times, March 5, 2005.

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