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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Human 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 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

Halliday AN. Mixing, volatile loss and compositional change during impact-driven accretion of the Earth. Nature 2004; 427: 505–509.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cuervo R, Chimal-Monroy J. Chemical activation of RARβ induces post-embryonically bilateral limb duplication during Xenopus limb regeneration. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 1886.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tamisiea ME, Mitrovica JX, Davis JL. GRACE gravity data constrain ancient ice geometries and continental dynamics over Laurentia. Science 2007; 316: 881–883.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Solt LA, Kumar N, Nuhant P, Wang Y, Lauer JL, Liu J et al. Suppression of TH17 differentiation and autoimmunity by a synthetic ROR ligand. Nature 2011; 472: 491–494.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coates M, Jenkins B. Electrical Installation Calculations: For Compliance with BS 7671:2008. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2010.

An edited book

Baird D, Scerri E, McIntyre L (eds.). Philosophy Of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Greve AM, Wachtell K. The Electrocardiogram as a Risk Predictor in Asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis. In: Rajamannan NM (ed). Cardiac Valvular Medicine. Springer: London, 2013, pp 35–45.

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 Human Hypertension.

Blog post

Davis J. Modern Humans And Neanderthals May Have Been Swapping STIs. IFLScience. 2017.

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. Guarantee Agency Funding, Operations, and Reserves Under the Guaranteed Student Loan Program. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Buchigari SR. A tool to automate the process of Unit testing of webapplications (Criterion V1.0). 2010.

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

Gorman J. Demands That Change DNA. New York Times. 2017; : D6.

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	Journal of Human Hypertension
Abbreviation	J. Hum. Hypertens.
ISSN (print)	0950-9240
ISSN (online)	1476-5527
Scope	Internal Medicine