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

McKinney JC. Astronomy. Probing black hole gravity. Science 2012; 337:916–917.

A journal article with 2 authors

Côté J-F, Vuori K. Cell biology. Two lipids that give direction. Science 2009; 324:346–347.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sweeney KE, Roering JJ, Ellis C. GEOMORPHOLOGY. Experimental evidence for hillslope control of landscape scale. Science 2015; 349:51–53.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wenger OS, Leigh BS, Villahermosa RM, Gray HB, Winkler JR. Electron tunneling through organic molecules in frozen glasses. Science 2005; 307:99–102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kazimierczuk M. High-Frequency Magnetic Components. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Toi VV, Toan NB, Dang Khoa TQ, Lien Phuong TH, editors. 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu X, Li X. Privacy Preservation Using Logical Coordinates. In: Location Privacy Protection in Mobile Networks. Li X (editor). . New York, NY: Springer; 2013. pp. 51–72.

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

O`Callaghan J. What The Hell Is This Bizarre Looking “Alien” Creature? IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-weird-mystery-alien-thing/ (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. Challenges of Protecting Personal Information in an Expanding Federal Computer Network Environment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wang T. Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media. 2013.

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

Kinsley M. Can There Be Nothing Good to Say? New York Times. 2017; :SR2.

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

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