How to format your references using the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 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

Koen D. Nuts and bolts. Selling your skills. Nature. 2004;427(6974):570.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stein E, Tessier-Lavigne M. Hierarchical organization of guidance receptors: silencing of netrin attraction by slit through a Robo/DCC receptor complex. Science. 2001;291(5510):1928-1938.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scarborough CL, Ferrari J, Godfray HCJ. Aphid protected from pathogen by endosymbiont. Science. 2005;310(5755):1781.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kiehl S, Herkt SC, Richter AM, et al. ABCB4 is frequently epigenetically silenced in human cancers and inhibits tumor growth. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6899.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klöpffer W. Verhalten Und Abbau von Umweltchemikalien. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

Firoozye NB. Managing Uncertainty, Mitigating Risk: Tackling the Unknown in Financial Risk Assessment and Decision Making. (Ariff F, ed.). Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Gladkov LA, Gladkova NV, Leiba SN. Electronic Computing Equipment Schemes Elements Placement Based on Hybrid Intelligence Approach. In: Silhavy R, Senkerik R, Oplatkova ZK, Prokopova Z, Silhavy P, eds. Intelligent Systems in Cybernetics and Automation Theory: Proceedings of the 4th Computer Science On-Line Conference 2015 (CSOC2015), Vol 2: Intelligent Systems in Cybernetics and Automation Theory. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing; 2015:35-44.

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 Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.

Blog post

Evans K. LEGO To Launch “Women In NASA” Collection. IFLScience. March 2, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/lego-to-launch-women-in-nasa-collection/

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. Social Security Administration: Software Development Process Improvements Started But Work Remains. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Manandhar R. Synthesis and Characterization of Some Novel Dinitrosyl Diphosphine Iron Complexes. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 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

Kenigsberg B. Master. New York Times. January 5, 2017:C12.

In-text citations

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

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 Journal of Health-System Pharmacy
Abbreviation	Am. J. Health. Syst. Pharm.
ISSN (print)	1079-2082
ISSN (online)	1535-2900
Scope	Health Policy Pharmacology