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

Bockrath MW. Chemistry. A single-molecule engine. Science. 2012;338(6108):754-755.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fesik SW, Shi Y. Structural biology. Controlling the caspases. Science. 2001;294(5546):1477-1478.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hinrichs KU, Hmelo LR, Sylva SP. Molecular fossil record of elevated methane levels in late Pleistocene coastal waters. Science. 2003;299(5610):1214-1217.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Burch JL, Goldstein J, Lewis WS, et al. Tethys and Dione as sources of outward-flowing plasma in Saturn’s magnetosphere. Nature. 2007;447(7146):833-835.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ludders JW, McMillan M. Errors in Veterinary Anesthesia. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Wang L. Device-to-Device Communications in Cellular Networks. (Tang H, ed.). Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Bashir S, Rauber A. Improving Retrievability and Recall by Automatic Corpus Partitioning. In: Hameurlain A, Küng J, Wagner R, Bach Pedersen T, Tjoa AM, eds. Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2010:122-140.

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. Take A Trip With NASA’s Travel Posters For The New TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets. IFLScience. February 24, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/take-a-trip-with-nasas-travel-posters-for-the-new-trappist1-exoplanets/

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. The Treasury Department and Its Bureaus Can Better Plan for and Control Computer Resources. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sadr EI. To Whisper in the King’s Ear: Economists in Pahlavi and Islamic Iran. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 2013.

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

Bosman J, Harmon A, Hauser C, Bidgood J, Astor M. Friends and Relatives Share Memories About the Las Vegas Shooting Victims. New York Times. October 2, 2017:A18.

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