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

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

Nadis S. Top physicist crosses to Boston in search of like minds. Nature 2000; 404:798.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knapp S, Mallet J. Ecology. Refuting refugia? Science 2003; 300:71–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Marte B, Eccleston A, Nath D. Molecular cancer diagnostics. Nature 2008; 452:547.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Glenner H, Thomsen PF, Hebsgaard MB, Sørensen MV, Willerslev E. Evolution. The origin of insects. Science 2006; 314:1883–1884.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Elias H-G. Macromolecules. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2006.

An edited book

Galicki K, Simanca SR, editors. Riemannian Topology and Geometric Structures on Manifolds. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Lellouche P. Necessary Progress in the Defence of Europe. In: The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2010. Arvanitopoulos C, Botsiou KE (editors). . Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. pp. 33–44.

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 Hypertension.

Blog post

Andrew D. Most Vitamins Are Useless, But Here Are The Ones You Should Take. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/most-vitamins-are-useless-but-here-are-the-ones-you-should-take/ (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. Default Rates at HBCUs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wylie RW. Response to Intervention: A Study of Intervention Programs in Rural Secondary Schools. 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

Greenhouse L. Justices Back Police Intervention Without a Warrant. New York Times. 2006; :A22.

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	Journal of Hypertension
Abbreviation	J. Hypertens.
ISSN (print)	0263-6352
ISSN (online)	1473-5598
Scope	Physiology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Internal Medicine