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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Padian K. Darwin’s enduring legacy. Nature 2008; 451: 632–634.

A journal article with 2 authors

Velian A, Cummins CC. Inorganic chemistry. Synthesis and characterization of P₂N₃⁻: an aromatic ion composed of phosphorus and nitrogen. Science 2015; 348: 1001–1004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Costello C, Gaines SD, Lynham J. Can catch shares prevent fisheries collapse? Science 2008; 321: 1678–1681.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

del Campo ML, Miles CI, Schroeder FC, Mueller C, Booker R, Renwick JA. Host recognition by the tobacco hornworm is mediated by a host plant compound. Nature 2001; 411: 186–189.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon L, Ospina J. Closed-Form Solutions for Drug Transport through Controlled-Release Devices in Two and Three Dimensions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc

An edited book

Villarreal FJ (ed). Interstitial Fibrosis in Heart Failure. New York, NY: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Evgen’ev MB, Garbuz DG, Zatsepina OG. Heat Shock Proteins and Adaptation to Variable and Extreme Environments. In: Garbuz DG, Zatsepina OG, editors. Heat Shock Proteins and Whole Body Adaptation to Extreme Environments. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014: 59–115.

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 World Journal of Hypertension.

Blog post

Fang J. Crows Can Understand Analogies. IFLScience. 2014.

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. Transportation Trust Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mitchell VM. A phenomenological study factors African American female college students face participating in engineering STEM majors. 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

Sisario B. Beyoncé and Radiohead to Headline Coachella. New York Times. 2017; : C3.

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	World Journal of Hypertension
ISSN (online)	2220-3168
Scope