What Hebrew Transliteration format should I use.

Bobby, I'm just bumping this back to the top.

But I'd assume the anwer would likely be relative to your audience ... your sermons or readers of your papers.  If it's like most congregations, etc, the format used by Strongs is going to confuse people the least. The more technical formats are going to quickly be an issue for those not familiar with hebrew.

Well, I'm primarily popping your question up to the top, in the case that there's an official answer.  

My impression through the years, is that it's a resource-specific issue.  I included a group below to illustrate. The more technical lexicons (e.g. HALOT don't transliterate or not predictably) and so I didn't include below.

For non-Hebrew readers and illustrations in a sermon (again a congregation not familiar), I'd use the Strongs, and the version relative to pronouncing (e.g. eloheem).   Now, a more normal answer would be 'elohim' (typical for those already having some hebrew), which for non-Hebrew-ists  will quickly be pronounced wrong.  The contra to my preference, is that anyone seeing 'eloheem' and wanting to 'look it up' quickly won't find it (typically Strongs).  They'd want 'Elohim'.

And then if you look at Swanson, TWOT, and TLOT, they use a transliteration approach more technical, but demanding specialized fonts.  Finally, if you move into specific volumes that involve hebrew, the transliteration can get pretty detailed which often is relative to manuscript differences for non-hebrew-ist readers.

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It really depends on your target audience.

Bobby Farris Jr said:

Hello. I cannot read Hebrew and want to choose a good transliteration format that I can use to copy into papers I write. I would like the format to be something that can be easily stated in a sermon or paper.

Should I just leave it to the default format: Scientific? What are the differences in the other formats?

I would suggest copy and paste from resources you are quoting. Trying to communicate a language you do not understand can lead to disaster.

illustration. The Greek word for "father" is πατρὸς. One person transliterated the Greek letters of the English sounds as φαθερ which is gibberish to anybody who knows Greek. The problem came when he showed the large tattoo on his back to a visiting preacher. The young man asked the visiting professor "What's the problem? Don't you recognize the Lord's Prayer?" His entire back was covered in this "Greek" gibberish.