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

Rabitz H: Chemistry. Strong-arming molecular dynamics. Science 2006;314(5797):264-265.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poliakoff M, King P: Phenomenal fluids. Nature 2001;412(6843):125.

A journal article with 3 authors

Capozza R, Barel I, Urbakh M: Probing and tuning frictional aging at the nanoscale. Sci. Rep. 2013;3:1896.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Luo L, Wu J, Luo J, Huang J, Dravid VP: Dynamics of electrochemical lithiation/delithiation of graphene-encapsulated silicon nanoparticles studied by in-situ TEM. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:3863.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saleh AKME, Arashi M, Tabatabaey SMM: Statistical Inference for Models with Multivariate t -Distributed Errors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Chandra C: Supply Chain Configuration: Concepts, Solutions, and Applications. (Grabis J, ed.). Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Wigle DA, Jurisica I: Molecular Subtypes of Cancer from Gene Expression Profiling. In: Jurisica I, Wigle DA, Wong B, eds. Cancer Informatics in the Post Genomic Era: Toward Information-Based Medicine. Cancer Treatment and Research. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007:45-58.

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

Hale T: Elon Musk Has A 'Top Secret Tesla Masterplan” Coming This Week. IFLScience 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musk-has-a-top-secret-tesla-masterplan-coming-this-week/. 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: Alternative Methods for Collecting Airport Passenger Facility Charges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shibata CL: Building positive body image in adolescent girls: An evaluation of a body image prevention program. 2017.

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

Greenhouse L: Case of Texas Murderer Engrosses Supreme Court. New York Times. October 11, 2007:A24.

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