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

Petley DN. Geophysics. Characterizing giant landslides. Science. 2013 Mar 22;339(6126):1395–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoeller D, Dikic I. Targeting the ubiquitin system in cancer therapy. Nature. 2009 Mar 26;458(7237):438–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tregenza T, Butlin RK, Wedell N. Sexual conflict and speciation. Nature. 2000 Sep 14;407(6801):149–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xu XH, Su ZZ, Wang C, Kubicek CP, Feng XX, Mao LJ, et al. The rice endophyte Harpophora oryzae genome reveals evolution from a pathogen to a mutualistic endophyte. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul 22;4:5783.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Troffaes MCM, Cooman G de. Lower Previsions: Troffaes/Lower Previsions. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014. (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics).

An edited book

Senn HJ, Otto F, editors. Clinical Cancer Prevention. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. X, 162 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color. (Recent Results in Cancer Research; vol. 188).

A chapter in an edited book

Bangerter E. A Cryptographic Framework for the Controlled Release of Certified Data (Transcript of Discussion). In: Christianson B, Crispo B, Malcolm JA, Roe M, editors. Security Protocols: 12th International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, April 26-28, 2004 Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 43–50. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Fang J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Multi-Cellular Life May Have Begun One Billion Years Earlier Than We Thought. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/large-multi-celled-life-may-have-began-one-billion-years-earlier-we-thought/

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. FAA Computer Systems: Limited Progress on Year 2000 Issue Increases Risk Dramatically. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Jan. Report No.: AIMD-98-45.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stanton B. On location: Race and family in the poetry of Sonia Sanchez, June Jordan, and Cathy Song [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2009.

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

McKINLEY JC Jr. Not Guilty, at Least Here, Lawyer Says. New York Times. 2017 Mar 8;A20.

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