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

Coleman, P., 2007. Frontier at your fingertips. Nature 446, 379.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, X., Huang, B., 2014. Computational study of in-plane phonon transport in Si thin films. Sci. Rep. 4, 6399.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaganovich, D., Kopito, R., Frydman, J., 2008. Misfolded proteins partition between two distinct quality control compartments. Nature 454, 1088–1095.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, J., Lee, K., Jang, Y.-S., Jang, H., Han, S., Lee, S.-H., Kang, K.-I., Lim, C.-W., Kim, Y.-J., Kim, S.-W., 2014. Testing of a femtosecond pulse laser in outer space. Sci. Rep. 4, 5134.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wing, C., 2012. How Your House Works. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hehenberger, P., Bradley, D. (Eds.), 2016. Mechatronic Futures: Challenges and Solutions for Mechatronic Systems and their Designers. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

DeStefano, S., 2009. Wildlife Corridors and Developed Landscapes, in: Esparza, A.X., McPherson, G. (Eds.), The Planner’s Guide to Natural Resource Conservation: The Science of Land Development Beyond the Metropolitan Fringe. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 85–102.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. Tiny Vampires In Ancient Seas Sucked The Insides Out Of Their Prey [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, 2015. Environmental Satellites: Improvements Needed in NOAA’s Mitigation Strategies as It Prepares for Potential Satellite Coverage Gaps (No. GAO-15-386T). 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

Diorio, C.A., 2010. The silent scream of Medusa: Restoring, or re-storying, her voice (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2009. In Armstrong, An Example For Woods. New York Times B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coleman, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Coleman, 2007; Wang and Huang, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Huang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2014)

About the journal

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