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 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

Wiechert UH. Geology. Earth’s early atmosphere. Science 2002; 298:2341–2342.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lowell BB, Spiegelman BM. Towards a molecular understanding of adaptive thermogenesis. Nature 2000; 404:652–660.

A journal article with 3 authors

Flores I, Cayuela ML, Blasco MA. Effects of telomerase and telomere length on epidermal stem cell behavior. Science 2005; 309:1253–1256.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bullock TH, Bennett MVL, Johnston D, Josephson R, Marder E, Fields RD. Neuroscience. The neuron doctrine, redux. Science 2005; 310:791–793.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samara T. ERP and Information Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

Zhou J, Yung M, editors. Applied Cryptography and Network Security: 8th International Conference, ACNS 2010, Beijing, China, June 22-25, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Gantsou D, Sondi P. Efficient Selection of Multipoint Relays in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Realistic Physical Layer. In: Sustainable Internet: Third Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2007, Phuket, Thailand, November 27-29, 2007. Proceedings. Fdida S, Sugiura K (editors). . Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. pp. 48–59.

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

Andrew E. New Species of Humpback Dolphin Discovered. IFLScience. 2013.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-humpback-dolphin-discovered/ (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. School Facilities: Construction Expenditures Have Grown Significantly in Recent Years. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gonzaga Reed RR. The Impact of a Community-Based College Access Program at a Midwestern Institution. 2017.

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

Poniewozik J. The Elephant in a Ballroom at the Globes. New York Times. 2017; :C1.

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