How to format your references using the Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Jablonski D: Extinction: past and present. Nature 2004;427(6975):589.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hennessy ET, Betley TA: Complex N-heterocycle synthesis via iron-catalyzed, direct C-H bond amination. Science 2013;340(6132):591-595.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön JH, Kloc C, Batlogg B: Superconductivity at 52 K in hole-doped C60. Nature 2000;408(6812):549-552.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stocker H, Andjelkovic M, Oldham S, Laffargue M, Wymann MP, Hemmings BA, Hafen E: Living with lethal PIP3 levels: viability of flies lacking PTEN restored by a PH domain mutation in Akt/PKB. Science 2002;295(5562):2088-2091.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stoican F, Olaru S: Set-Theoretic Fault-Tolerant Control in Multisensor Systems. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, Busse H-J, Trujillo ME, Suzuki K-I, Ludwig W, Whitman WB, eds.: Bergey’s Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume Five The Actinobacteria, Part A and B. Second Edition. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

van der Aalst WMP: Decomposing Process Mining Problems Using Passages. In: Haddad S, Pomello L, eds. Application and Theory of Petri Nets: 33rd International Conference, PETRI NETS 2012, Hamburg, Germany, June 25-29, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012:72-91.

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 Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery.

Blog post

Andrew E: Experts Raise Eyebrows Over Meteoritic Origin Of Nicaraguan Crater. IFLScience 2014. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/experts-raise-eyebrows-over-meteoritic-origin-nicaraguan-crater/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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: Intellectual Property: Risk and Enforcement Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hoffmann M: An exploratory study: Mobile device use for academics. 2015.

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

Gurley G: Death of a Red Carpet Reporter. New York Times. December 27, 2016:D1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery
Abbreviation	J. Aerosol Med. Pulm. Drug Deliv.
ISSN (print)	1941-2711
ISSN (online)	1941-2703
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine Pharmaceutical Science