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

Müller A. Chemistry. The beauty of symmetry. Science. 2003; 300:749-750.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Laat W, Duboule D. Topology of mammalian developmental enhancers and their regulatory landscapes. Nature. 2013; 502:499-506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jarillo-Herrero P, van Dam JA, Kouwenhoven LP. Quantum supercurrent transistors in carbon nanotubes. Nature. 2006; 439:953-956.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tesar PJ, Chenoweth JG, Brook FA, Davies TJ, Evans EP, Mack DL, Gardner RL, McKay RDG. New cell lines from mouse epiblast share defining features with human embryonic stem cells. Nature. 2007; 448:196-199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ford I. Statistical Physics. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

Mathis K, ed. Efficiency, Sustainability, and Justice to Future Generations. Vol 98. Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Fierens D, Ramon J, Bruynooghe M, Blockeel H. Learning Directed Probabilistic Logical Models Using Ordering-Search. In: Blockeel H, Ramon J, Shavlik J, Tadepalli P, eds. Inductive Logic Programming: 17th International Conference, ILP 2007, Corvallis, OR, USA, June 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2008, pp 24-24.

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

Andrew E. Science Journal Nature Makes Its Articles Free To Read And Share. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/science-journal-nature-makes-its-articles-free-read-and-share/. 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. Comments on Claim Against Mississippi for Disallowed Educational Grant Expenditures. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bustos I. Backpacking Through My Suburban Barrio: Eco-Latina Diaries. 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

Wagner J. Ties to Miami and to Cuba Run Deep in Marlins Bidder. New York Times. July 21, 2017:D1.

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