How to format your references using the American Journal of Hypertension citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Hypertension (AJH). 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

Sherwood S. A microphysical connection among biomass burning, cumulus clouds, and stratospheric moisture. Science. 2002; 295:1272-1275.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schnell JR, Chou JJ. Structure and mechanism of the M2 proton channel of influenza A virus. Nature. 2008; 451:591-595.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berner RA, Vandenbrooks JM, Ward PD. Evolution. Oxygen and evolution. Science. 2007; 316:557-558.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Belonoshko AB, Ramzan M, Mao H-K, Ahuja R. Atomic diffusion in solid molecular hydrogen. Sci Rep. 2013; 3:2340.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Durenard EA. Professional Automated Trading. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Christakos G. Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling: The Case of Black Death. (Olea RA, Serre ML, Yu H-L, Wang L-L, eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Knopp T, Buzug TM. Prior to Reconstruction – The System Function. In: Buzug TM, ed. Magnetic Particle Imaging: An Introduction to Imaging Principles and Scanner Instrumentation. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2012, pp 97-125.

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 Hypertension.

Blog post

Hale T. Creepy Swarm Of Baby Crabs Crawl Over Man’s Hand. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/creepy-swarm-baby-crabs-crawl-over-mans-hand/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Customs Automation: Observations on Selected Automated Commercial System Modules. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reig MA. Cross-Dialectal Variability in Propositional Anaphora: A Quantitative and Pragmatic Study of Null Objects in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish. 2008.

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

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. September 16, 2016:MM38.

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 Hypertension
Abbreviation	Am. J. Hypertens.
ISSN (print)	0895-7061
ISSN (online)	1941-7225
Scope	Internal Medicine