How to format your references using the Clinical Hypertension citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Hypertension. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Egger AE. IBI series winner. Engaging students in earthquakes via real-time data and decisions. Science. 2012;336:1654–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Liu X, Duncan JH. The effects of surfactants on spilling breaking waves. Nature. 2003;421:520–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wu C-I, Shi S, Zhang Y-P. A case for conservation. Nature. 2004;428:213–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Li F, Li W, Farzan M, Harrison SC. Structure of SARS coronavirus spike receptor-binding domain complexed with receptor. Science. 2005;309:1864–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Shinohara H, Tagmatarchis N. Endohedral Metallofullerenes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Murphy N, Ellis GFR, O’Connor T, editors. Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pradhan B, Pinninti NR. Yoga and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis (Y-MBCT p ©): A Pilot Study on Its Efficacy as Brief Therapy. In: Pradhan B, Pinninti N, Rathod S, editors. Brief Interventions for Psychosis: A Clinical Compendium. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 55–87.

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 Clinical Hypertension.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Robot Tricks Website‘s “I Am Not A Robot” Test Then Does Mic Drop [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robot-tricks-websites-i-am-not-a-robot-test-then-does-mic-drop/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Intellectual Property: Comparison of Patent Examination Statistics for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Mar. Report No.: RCED-97-58.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Garbarini L. Comparison of the Completion Pathways of Four Categories of Doctoral Students from a Midwestern University [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 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

1. Leland J. Worn With Pride. New York Times. 2016 Aug 5;MB9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Clinical Hypertension
Abbreviation	Clin. Hypertens.
ISSN (online)	2056-5909
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