How to format your references using the American Heart Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Heart Journal. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

May R. Risk and uncertainty. Nature. 2001 Jun 21;411(6840):891.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu F, Zhang X. The Wnt signaling pathway is involved in the regulation of phagocytosis of virus in Drosophila. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2069.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burkett V, Groat CG, Reed D. Hurricanes not the key to a sustainable coast. Science. 2007 Mar 9;315(5817):1366–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wilde SA, Valley JW, Peck WH, Graham CM. Evidence from detrital zircons for the existence of continental crust and oceans on the Earth 4.4 Gyr ago. Nature. 2001 Jan 11;409(6817):175–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heiberger RM. Computation for the Analysis of Designed Experiments. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

Tamil Selvan S. Introduction to Nanotheranostics. Narayanan K, editor. Singapore: Springer; 2016. VII, 79 p. 47 illus., 39 illus. in color. (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology).

A chapter in an edited book

Li J, Huang W. Extension and Generalization of the EMMS Principle. In: Huang W, editor. Towards Mesoscience: The Principle of Compromise in Competition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 33–44. (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology).

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 American Heart Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. The Deadly Poison Lurking In A Frog The Size Of Your Fingernail. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deadly-poison-lurking-frog-size-your-fingernail/

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. Medical Records Privacy: Uses and Oversight of Patient Information in Research. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Feb. Report No.: T-HEHS-99-70.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Conill AL. Dosimetric consequences of the parotid glands using CT-to-CBCT deformable registration during IMRT for late stage head and neck cancers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 2015.

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

Kelly D. Starting Out in the ’70s. New York Times. 2011 Nov 6;BR17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	American Heart Journal
Abbreviation	Am. Heart J.
ISSN (print)	0002-8703
ISSN (online)	1097-6744
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine