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

Koen D. Nuts and bolts. Totally stumped? Nature 2004; 431:722.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tegmark M, Bostrom N. Astrophysics: is a doomsday catastrophe likely? Nature 2005; 438:754.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stevens RC, Yokoyama S, Wilson IA. Global efforts in structural genomics. Science 2001; 294:89–92.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Santagiustina M, Chin S, Primerov N, Ursini L, Thévenaz L. All-optical signal processing using dynamic Brillouin gratings. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1594.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beagle JR. Surgical Essentials of Immediate Implant Dentistry. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Sakakibara Y, Mi Y, editors. DNA Computing and Molecular Programming: 16th International Conference, DNA 16, Hong Kong, China, June 14-17, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Costabile MF, Mussio P, Parasiliti Provenza L, Piccinno A. Supporting End Users to Be Co-designers of Their Tools. In: End-User Development: 2nd International Symposium, IS-EUD 2009, Siegen, Germany, March 2-4, 2009. Proceedings. Pipek V, Rosson MB, Ruyter B de, Wulf V (editors). . Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. pp. 70–85.

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. From Medical Treatment To Diet And Lifestyle Choice: How To Spot Unreliable Health Research. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/from-medical-treatment-to-diet-and-lifestyle-choice-how-to-spot-unreliable-health-research/ (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. Intellectual Property: Improvements Needed to Better Manage Patent Office Automation and Address Workforce Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hogg JH. An assessment of social vulnerability in Yuba County, California. 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

Paulson M. Broadway at Midnight: ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2.’ New York Times. 2017; :C2.

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