How to format your references using the Current Hypertension Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Hypertension Reports. 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

1. Parkin G. Chemistry. Zinc-zinc bonds: a new frontier. Science. 2004;305:1117–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Taylor WR, Lin K. Protein knots: A tangled problem. Nature. 2003;421:25.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. MacMicking JD, Taylor GA, McKinney JD. Immune control of tuberculosis by IFN-gamma-inducible LRG-47. Science. 2003;302:654–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Temirov R, Soubatch S, Luican A, Tautz FS. Free-electron-like dispersion in an organic monolayer film on a metal substrate. Nature. 2006;444:350–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. El-Haik BS. Axiomatic Quality. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Brumme R, Khanna PK, editors. Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Krishnan SPT, Gonzalez JLU. Google App Engine. In: Gonzalez JLU, editor. Building Your Next Big Thing with Google Cloud Platform: A Guide for Developers and Enterprise Architects. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2015. p. 83–122.

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 Current Hypertension Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Scientists Closer To Bringing A Species Back From Extinction [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-closer-bringing-species-back-extinction/

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. Vulnerability of the Computer Society. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Nov. Report No.: 100059.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Crosby AE. A phenomenological heuristic study of psychosocial factors that contribute to African American females’ HIV seroconversion [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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

1. Walsh MW. The Illusion of Savings. New York Times. 2010 Sep 18;B1.

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	Current Hypertension Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Hypertens. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1522-6417
ISSN (online)	1534-3111
Scope	Internal Medicine