How to format your references using the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 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

Lifschitz V. John McCarthy (1927-2011). Nature. 2011;480(7375):40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller GT, Pitnick S. Sperm-female coevolution in Drosophila. Science. 2002;298(5596):1230-1233.

A journal article with 3 authors

McGraw CM, Samaco RC, Zoghbi HY. Adult neural function requires MeCP2. Science. 2011;333(6039):186.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ceci M, Gaviraghi C, Gorrini C, et al. Release of eIF6 (p27BBP) from the 60S subunit allows 80S ribosome assembly. Nature. 2003;426(6966):579-584.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dickenson J, Freeman F, Mills CL, Sivasubramaniam S, Thode C. Molecular Pharmacology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Cherry AL, Dillon ME, eds. International Handbook of Adolescent Pregnancy: Medical, Psychosocial, and Public Health Responses. Springer US; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Reineke J, Wilhelm R. Static Timing Analysis – What is Special? In: Probst CW, Hankin C, Hansen RR, eds. Semantics, Logics, and Calculi: Essays Dedicated to Hanne Riis Nielson and Flemming Nielson on the Occasion of Their 60th Birthdays. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing; 2016:74-87.

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 Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.

Blog post

Andrews R. This Artificial Retina Could Revolutionize The Way We Treat Sight Loss. IFLScience. March 14, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/artificial-retina-revolutionize-treat-sight-loss/

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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2010 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

De La Cruz E. School Social Work Programing for an Elementary School: A Grant Writing Project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Lee L. Chandana Kanithi and Siva Korukonda. New York Times. March 4, 2012:ST14.

In-text citations

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

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 Journal of Health-System Pharmacy
Abbreviation	Am. J. Health. Syst. Pharm.
ISSN (print)	1079-2082
ISSN (online)	1535-2900
Scope	Health Policy Pharmacology