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

Kubin L. Materials science. Collective defect behavior under stress. Science. 2006 May 12;312(5775):864–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ramirez G, Beilock SL. Writing about testing worries boosts exam performance in the classroom. Science. 2011 Jan 14;331(6014):211–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin X, Fauqué B, Behnia K. SOLID-STATE PHYSICS. Scalable T² resistivity in a small single-component Fermi surface. Science. 2015 Aug 28;349(6251):945–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Colombani J, Bianchini L, Layalle S, Pondeville E, Dauphin-Villemant C, Antoniewski C, et al. Antagonistic actions of ecdysone and insulins determine final size in Drosophila. Science. 2005 Oct 28;310(5748):667–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Golio M. Engineering Your Retirement. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Nandwani D, editor. Organic Farming for Sustainable Agriculture. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XVIII, 344 p. 47 illus., 43 illus. in color. (Sustainable Development and Biodiversity; vol. 9).

A chapter in an edited book

Tong L, Zhou L, Tang J. Frequency Setting of Urban Mass Transit Based on Passenger Flow Along the Entire Line. In: Xia H, Zhang Y, editors. The 2nd International Symposium on Rail Transit Comprehensive Development (ISRTCD) Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 59–65.

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

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. 10 Space Myths We Need to Stop Believing. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/10-space-myths-we-need-stop-believing/

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. Examination of NASA Contract With Boeing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971 Jul. Report No.: B-171977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bai H. High Temperature Proton-Exchange and Fuel Processing Membranes for Fuel Cells and Other Applications [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2008.

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

Novick SM. North Fork Grows Meat to Go With the Potatoes. New York Times. 2015 May 3;LI9.

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