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

Sanderson K. US biofuels: a field in ferment. Nature 2006; 444: 673–676.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rice SA, Haselkorn R. Paul Mead Doty (1920-2011). Nature 2012; 481: 266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackermann M, Stearns SC, Jenal U. Senescence in a bacterium with asymmetric division. Science 2003; 300: 1920.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bonifacie M, Jendrzejewski N, Agrinier P, Humler E, Coleman M, Javoy M. The chlorine isotope composition of Earth’s mantle. Science 2008; 319: 1518–1520.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blair R, Regenstein JM. Genetic Modification and Food Quality. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

Nilius B, Gudermann T, Jahn R, Lill R, Offermanns S, Petersen OH (eds.). Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Vol. 167. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Paul DJ. Quantum Cascade Lasers. In: Perenzoni M, Paul DJ (eds). Physics and Applications of Terahertz Radiation. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2014, pp 103–121.

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

Andrew E. Greenland Glacier Just Shed A Chunk Of Ice The Size Of Manhattan. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/environment/greenland-glacier-just-shed-chunk-ice-could-cover-manhattan/ (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. Weather Forecasting: Improvements Needed in Laboratory Software Development Processes. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mickels BJ. A phenomenological research study on the formation of global business teams. 2010.

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. Gregorius and Judge Deliver Major Blows as Yanks Top Mets Again. New York Times. 2017; : B12.

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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