How to format your references using the American Heart Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Heart Journal. 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

Montesi LGJ. Planetary science. Solving the mascon mystery. Science. 2013 Jun 28;340(6140):1535–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ranta E, Kaitala V. Ecology. A leap for lion populations. Science. 2005 Jan 21;307(5708):365–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Egholm DL, Knudsen MF, Sandiford M. Lifespan of mountain ranges scaled by feedbacks between landsliding and erosion by rivers. Nature. 2013 Jun 27;498(7455):475–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Abbaszadeh S, Scott CC, Bubon O, Reznik A, Karim KS. Enhanced detection efficiency of direct conversion X-ray detector using polyimide as hole-blocking layer. Sci Rep. 2013 Nov 28;3:3360.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee JC, McCormick NJ. Risk and Safety Analysis of Nuclear Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Arya K. Windows Group Policy Troubleshooting: A Best Practice Guide for Managing Users and PCs Through Group Policy. Bettany A, editor. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2016. XXV, 212 p. 175 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Siegel J. The Roles of Hypocretin/Orexin in Narcolepsy, Parkinson’s Disease, and Normal Behavior. In: Baumann CR, Bassetti CL, Scammell TE, editors. Narcolepsy: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. p. 37–45.

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 American Heart Journal.

Blog post

Hamilton K. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Study Suggests We Reclassify The Moon As A Planet – Reopening A Centuries-Old Debate. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/study-suggests-we-reclassify-the-moon-as-a-planet-reopening-a-centuries-old-debate/

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. District of Columbia: D.C. Public Schools Inappropriately Used Gas Utility Contract for Renovations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Sep. Report No.: GAO-01-963.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ayhan MS. A Probabilistic Biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

Barry E, Kishkovsky S. As Putin’s Popularity Soars, Voices of Opposition Are Being Drowned Out. New York Times. 2014 Mar 16;A13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	American Heart Journal
Abbreviation	Am. Heart J.
ISSN (print)	0002-8703
ISSN (online)	1097-6744
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine