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

Cerutti, A., 2010. Immunology. IgA changes the rules of memory. Science 328, 1646–1647.

A journal article with 2 authors

To, T.-L., Maheshri, N., 2010. Noise can induce bimodality in positive transcriptional feedback loops without bistability. Science 327, 1142–1145.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baier, D.B., Gatesy, S.M., Jenkins, F.A., 2007. A critical ligamentous mechanism in the evolution of avian flight. Nature 445, 307–310.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kravchenko, J.E., Rogozin, I.B., Koonin, E.V., Chumakov, P.M., 2005. Transcription of mammalian messenger RNAs by a nuclear RNA polymerase of mitochondrial origin. Nature 436, 735–739.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alladin, A., 2015. Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Cordero, M.D., Viollet, B. (Eds.), 2016. AMP-activated Protein Kinase, Experientia Supplementum. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Nagase, H., Visse, R., 2011. Triple Helicase Activity and the Structural Basis of Collagenolysis, in: Parks, W.C., Mecham, R.P. (Eds.), Extracellular Matrix Degradation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 95–122.

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

Hale, T., 2016. China Finally Confirms Their Space Station Is Crashing Towards Earth [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/china-finally-confirms-their-space-station-is-crashing-towards-earth/ (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, 2009. National Airspace System: Regional Airport Planning Could Help Address Congestion If Plans Were Integrated with FAA and Airport Decision Making (No. GAO-10-120). 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

Ortega, S. de, 2006. The Impact of Outcome Measurement on Non-profit Organizations: A Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Barboza, D., 2017. Chinese Giant Rose on a Web Of Family Ties. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cerutti, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cerutti, 2010; To and Maheshri, 2010).

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

Two authors: (To and Maheshri, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kravchenko et al., 2005)

About the journal

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