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. Vinge JD. Murphy’s cat. Nature. 2000;408:649.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wenseleers T, Ratnieks FLW. Enforced altruism in insect societies. Nature. 2006;444:50.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Tay Y, Rinn J, Pandolfi PP. The multilayered complexity of ceRNA crosstalk and competition. Nature. 2014;505:344–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nielsen KH, Kittel T, Wondraczek K, Wondraczek L. Optical breathing of nano-porous antireflective coatings through adsorption and desorption of water. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6595.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lehto J, Hou X. Chemistry and Analysis of Radionuclides. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

1. Mayer V. Distance Expanding Random Mappings, Thermodynamical Formalism, Gibbs Measures and Fractal Geometry. Urbanski M, Skorulski B, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Reinaldo F, Camacho R, Reis LP, Magalhães DR. Fine-Tune Artificial Neural Networks Automatically. In: Mastorakis N, Mladenov V, Kontargyri VT, editors. Proceedings of the European Computing Conference: Volume 1. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009. p. 39–43.

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. Fang J. Here’s How Scarce Wild Prey Must Be Before Big Cats Kill Livestock. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Vocational Education: Opportunity to Prepare for the Future. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Jun. Report No.: T-HRD-89-31.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Crumlish SB. Domingo Chileno: An Overture for Orchestra [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2014.

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. Markoff J. John Ellenby, Creator of Early Laptop, Dies at 75. New York Times. 2016 Aug 27;A14.

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