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

Abbott, A., 2003. Danish biotech centre faces axe. Nature 422, 105.

A journal article with 2 authors

Antonakis, J., Dalgas, O., 2009. Predicting elections: child’s play! Science 323, 1183.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maharana, C., Sharma, K.P., Sharma, S.K., 2013. Feedback mechanism in depolarization-induced sustained activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase in the hippocampus. Sci. Rep. 3, 1103.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stickgold, R., Hobson, J.A., Fosse, R., Fosse, M., 2001. Sleep, learning, and dreams: off-line memory reprocessing. Science 294, 1052–1057.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wootton, R.J., Smith, C., 2014. Reproductive Biology of Teleost Fishes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Cozzens, S.E., Wetmore, J. (Eds.), 2011. Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development, Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Erozan, Y.S., Tatsas, A., 2015. Biliary Tract, in: Tatsas, A. (Ed.), Cytopathology of Liver, Biliary Tract, Kidney and Adrenal Gland, Essentials in Cytopathology. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 103–114.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Solar Plant Achieves Supercritical Steam [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, 2004. Low-Income and Minority Serving Institutions: Department of Education Could Improve Its Monitoring and Assistance (No. GAO-04-961). 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

Hsu, Y.-C., 2009. A cultural psychosocial model for depression in elder care institutions: The roles of Socially Supportive Activity and self-transcendence (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Pennington, B., 2016. Youth Sports Go Broke as Trusted Adults Steal. 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 (Abbott, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2003; Antonakis and Dalgas, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Antonakis and Dalgas, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Stickgold et al., 2001)

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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