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

Loder N: UK panel calls for more cuts to carbon dioxide emission. Nature 2000;405(6789):873-874.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhoj VG, Chen ZJ: Ubiquitylation in innate and adaptive immunity. Nature 2009;458(7237):430-437.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barnes WL, Dereux A, Ebbesen TW: Surface plasmon subwavelength optics. Nature 2003;424(6950):824-830.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Faxén K, Gilderson G, Adelroth P, Brzezinski P: A mechanistic principle for proton pumping by cytochrome c oxidase. Nature 2005;437(7056):286-289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

CCPS: Guidelines for Mechanical Integrity Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Ferry RJ Jr, ed.: Management of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Abercrombie RK, Loebl AS: Systems Life Cycle and Its Relation with the Triple Helix. In: Ding Y, Rousseau R, Wolfram D, eds. Measuring Scholarly Impact: Methods and Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014:103-125.

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

Davis J: Researchers May Have Cracked Why Orcas Undergo Menopause. IFLScience 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-may-have-cracked-why-orcas-undergo-menopause/. 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: Los Angeles Red Line: Financing Decisions Could Affect This and Other Los Angeles County Rail Capital Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Young W: Diamagnetism of a supersonic rotating magnetized plasma. 2012.

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

McCAIN J: I Choose the Kurds. New York Times. October 24, 2017:A23.

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