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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Human 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	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

Sherratt DJ. Bacterial chromosome dynamics. Science 2003; 301: 780–785.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suit HD, Willers H. Comment on ‘Tumor response to radiotherapy regulated by endothelial cell apoptosis’ (I). Science 2003; 302: 1894; author reply 1894.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eggenschwiler JT, Espinoza E, Anderson KV. Rab23 is an essential negative regulator of the mouse Sonic hedgehog signalling pathway. Nature 2001; 412: 194–198.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bowers PM, Cokus SJ, Eisenberg D, Yeates TO. Use of logic relationships to decipher protein network organization. Science 2004; 306: 2246–2249.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baldwin D, Birkett J, Facey O, Rabey G. The Forensic Examination and Interpretation of Tool Marks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

Liamputtong P (ed.). Stigma, Discrimination and Living with HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Diong ML, Bas P, Pelle C, Sawaya W. Document Authentication Using 2D Codes: Maximizing the Decoding Performance Using Statistical Inference. In: Decker BD, Chadwick DW (eds). Communications and Multimedia Security: 13th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 International Conference, CMS 2012, Canterbury, UK, September 3-5, 2012. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012, pp 39–54.

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 Journal of Human Hypertension.

Blog post

Hale T. ‘Killer Bees’ Were Created By Scientists In An Experiment That Went Wrong. IFLScience. 2017.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/killer-bees-were-created-by-scientists-in-an-experiment-that-went-wrong/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Information Technology: Federal Agencies Need to Strengthen Investment Board Oversight of Poorly Planned and Performing Projects. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lavin EE. Discourse in monolingual and bilingual non-trial hearings. 2015.

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

Nossiter A. Rare Supreme Court Stay Halts a Texas Execution. New York Times. 2007; : A18.

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	Journal of Human Hypertension
Abbreviation	J. Hum. Hypertens.
ISSN (print)	0950-9240
ISSN (online)	1476-5527
Scope	Internal Medicine

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