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

Kiefer, T., 2010. Ocean science. When still waters ran deep. Science 329, 290–291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wood, B.J., Halliday, A.N., 2005. Cooling of the Earth and core formation after the giant impact. Nature 437, 1345–1348.

A journal article with 3 authors

James, S., Simmons, C.P., James, A.A., 2011. Ecology. Mosquito trials. Science 334, 771–772.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xiao, H., Jiang, N., Schaffner, E., Stockinger, E.J., van der Knaap, E., 2008. A retrotransposon-mediated gene duplication underlies morphological variation of tomato fruit. Science 319, 1527–1530.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertolini, L., Elsener, B., Pedeferri, P., Polder, R.B., 2003. Corrosion of Steel in Concrete. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Londral, A.R., Encarnação, P. (Eds.), 2016. Advances in Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics: Revised Selected Papers from the 2nd International Congress on Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics (NEUROTECHNIX 2014), October 25-26, Rome, Italy, Biosystems & Biorobotics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Coventry, B.J., Stavrou, P., 2014. Foot Surgery, in: Coventry, B.J. (Ed.), Peripheral, Head and Neck Surgery. Springer, London, pp. 49–62.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Scientists Develop Bionic Pancreas For Type 1 Diabetics [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-develop-bionic-pancreas-type-1-diabetics/ (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, 1992. Natural Gas: Factors Affecting Approval Times for Construction of Natural Gas Pipelines (No. RCED-92-100). 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

Sommer, A., 2017. How Experiences Influence and Inform School Principals’ Actions to Further Develop Teachers’ Instructional Practice (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Feeney, K., 2006. QUICK BITE/Newark; The Best of Brazil. New York Times 14NJ19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kiefer, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Kiefer, 2010; Wood and Halliday, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Wood and Halliday, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Xiao et al., 2008)

About the journal

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

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