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

Klein CA. Cancer. The metastasis cascade. Science. 2008;321(5897):1785-1787.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldenfeld N, Pace NR. Retrospective. Carl R. Woese (1928-2012). Science. 2013;339(6120):661.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wearn OR, Reuman DC, Ewers RM. Response to comment on “Extinction debt and windows of conservation opportunity in the Brazilian Amazon.” Science. 2013;339(6117):271.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wignall PB, McArthur JM, Little CTS, Hallam A. Palaeoceanography: methane release in the Early Jurassic period. Nature. 2006;441(7093):E5; discussion E5-6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perrin V. MRI Techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Altmann J, Rana OF, eds. Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 7th International Workshop, GECON 2010, Ischia, Italy, August 31, 2010. Proceedings. Vol 6296. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Scott HA. Collisional-Radiative Modeling for Radiation Hydrodynamics Codes. In: Ralchenko Y, ed. Modern Methods in Collisional-Radiative Modeling of Plasmas. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics. Springer International Publishing; 2016:81-104.

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

Hale T. “Scarface,” The Beloved Bear Of Yellowstone Park, Has Been Killed. IFLScience. May 8, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scarface-beloved-bear-yellowstone-park-has-been-shot/

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. University Finances: Research Revenues and Expenditures. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Caltrider CS. Critical Pedagogy Unit of Ceramics Instruction: Fostering Civic Engagement in California High School Students. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Palmer E, Otis J. 4 Years After Hurricane Sandy, 2 Households Still Wait to Return Home. New York Times. November 19, 2016:A19.

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