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

Osheroff DD. Robert Richardson (1937-2013). Nature. 2013;495(7442):450.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bollinger JM Jr, Matthews ML. Biochemistry. Remote enzyme microsurgery. Science. 2010;327(5971):1337-1338.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mito Y, Henikoff JG, Henikoff S. Histone replacement marks the boundaries of cis-regulatory domains. Science. 2007;315(5817):1408-1411.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu K, Raghavan S, Nelesen S, Linder CR, Warnow T. Rapid and accurate large-scale coestimation of sequence alignments and phylogenetic trees. Science. 2009;324(5934):1561-1564.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hayward A, Weare F. Steel Detailers’ Manual. Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Kapur S, Mermut A, Stoops G, eds. New Trends in Soil Micromorphology. Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Zäpfel G, Braune R, Bögl M. Metaheuristics Based on Solution Construction. In: Braune R, Bögl M, eds. Metaheuristic Search Concepts: A Tutorial with Applications to Production and Logistics. Springer; 2010:75-93.

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

Andrews R. US To Lift Ban On Creating Human-Animal Hybrids For Medical Research. IFLScience. Published August 5, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/us-to-lift-ban-on-creating-humananimal-hybrids-for-medical-research/

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. Student Loans: Direct Loans Could Save Money and Simplify Program Administration. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Conti AI. Dirty Hands, Virtue Ethics, and Consequentialism. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Kanter J, Castle S. E.U. Leaders Talk Tough on ‘Brexit.’ New York Times. December 6, 2016:A8.

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