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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Rampling J. Tudor technology: Shakespeare and science. Nature 2014; 508 (7494):39–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gupta V, Poss KD. Clonally dominant cardiomyocytes direct heart morphogenesis. Nature 2012; 484 (7395):479–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Vasudevan S, Tong Y, Steitz JA. Switching from repression to activation: microRNAs can up-regulate translation. Science 2007; 318 (5858):1931–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mancoff FB, Rizzo ND, Engel BN, Tehrani S. Phase-locking in double-point-contact spin-transfer devices. Nature 2005; 437 (7057):393–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Samonas M. Financial Forecasting, Analysis, and Modelling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

1. Hayden JA ed. Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery: From Copernicus to Flamsteed. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Long DM. Memories of Victor McKusick. In: Dronamraju KR, Francomano CA, eds. Victor McKusick and the History of Medical Genetics. New York, NY: Springer, 2012:39–40.

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. Europa Is Even More Similar To Earth Than We Thought. 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. High-Performance Computing: High-Speed Computer Networks in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Echols KI. Authentic Leadership, Research Integrity, and Institutions of Higher Learning: Why Focusing on Departmental Leadership is Critical for Preserving the Sanctity of Science. 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. Rojas R. Husband Charged With Murder in Wife’s ’09 Death on Upper West Side. New York Times. November 3, 2015:A24.

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