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

Bornens M. The centrosome in cells and organisms. Science 2012; 335:422–426.

A journal article with 2 authors

Correia ACM, Laskar J. Mercury’s capture into the 3/2 spin-orbit resonance as a result of its chaotic dynamics. Nature 2004; 429:848–850.

A journal article with 3 authors

Girvetz EH, Jaeger JAG, Thorne JH. Comment on “Roadless space of the conterminous United States.” Science 2007; 318:1240; author reply 1240.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Launay P, Cheng H, Srivatsan S, Penner R, Fleig A, Kinet J-P. TRPM4 regulates calcium oscillations after T cell activation. Science 2004; 306:1374–1377.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daubert EJ. The Annual Campaign. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Matson JL, Andrasik F, Matson ML, editors. Assessing Childhood Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities. New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Wieloch K, Filipowska A, Kaczmarek M. Autocompletion for Business Process Modelling. In: Business Information Systems Workshops: BIS 2011 International Workshops and BPSC International Conference, Poznań, Poland, June 15-17, 2011. Revised Papers. Abramowicz W, Maciaszek L, Węcel K (editors). . Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. pp. 30–40.

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

Hale T. Monsanto Strikes Deal To Use CRISPR Gene-Editing Technology In Food. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/monsanto-strikes-deal-to-use-crispr-geneediting-technology-in-food/ (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. Student Aid And Postsecondary Tax Preferences: Limited Research Exists on Effectiveness of Tools to Assist Students and Families through Title IV Student Aid and Tax Preferences. 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

Faynblut V. College access: A case study of Latino charter school students and their K-16 pathways. 2016.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Novelist Faces Pornography Charge. New York Times. 2002; :A8.

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