How to format your references using the International Journal of Pharmaceutics citation style

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

Gershon, D., 2000. US Congress encouraged to lay out the welcome mat for skilled foreigners. Nature 405, 597–598.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mulcahy, N.J., Call, J., 2006. Apes save tools for future use. Science 312, 1038–1040.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bala, A.D.S., Spitzer, M.W., Takahashi, T.T., 2003. Prediction of auditory spatial acuity from neural images on the owl’s auditory space map. Nature 424, 771–774.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Martin, J., Ilani, S., Verdene, B., Smet, J., Umansky, V., Mahalu, D., Schuh, D., Abstreiter, G., Yacoby, A., 2004. Localization of fractionally charged quasi-particles. Science 305, 980–983.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Avlonas, N., Nassos, G.P., 2013. Practical Sustainability Strategies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wang, Z., 2009. Generalized Measure Theory, IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Mackay, A.L., 2015. Food for Thought, in: Hargittai, B., Hargittai, I. (Eds.), Culture of Chemistry: The Best Articles on the Human Side of 20th-Century Chemistry from the Archives of the Chemical Intelligencer. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 29–30.

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 International Journal of Pharmaceutics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. Space Plane Company Develops Revolutionary Hybrid Rocket Engine That Could Take You Anywhere In The World In Four Hours [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2016. FACE Recognition Technology: FBI Should Better Ensure Privacy and Accuracy [Reissued on August 3, 2016] (No. GAO-16-267). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Eutz, R.J., 2014. The experiences of Recovery High School students: Using empirical phenomenology to garner knowledge (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Koblin, J., 2017. Ex-Fox Hosts Engage in Feud On Settlement. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2000; Mulcahy and Call, 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Mulcahy and Call, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Martin et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Pharmaceutics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pharm.
ISSN (print)	0378-5173
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science