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 (JAMP). 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

Pratt DW. Molecular dynamics. Biomolecules see the light. Science 2002;296(5577):2347–2348.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gavrilets S, Losos JB. Adaptive radiation: contrasting theory with data. Science 2009;323(5915):732–737.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sempere T, Hartley A, Roperch P. Comment on “Rapid uplift of the Altiplano revealed through 13C-18O bonds in paleosol carbonates.” Science 2006;314(5800):760; author reply 760.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lobino M, Korystov D, Kupchak C, et al. Complete characterization of quantum-optical processes. Science 2008;322(5901):563–566.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray R. A History of American Literature. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2011.

An edited book

Sanfelice Bazanella A. Data-Driven Controller Design: The H2 Approach. (Campestrini L, Eckhard D. eds). Communications and Control Engineering. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Rintaluoma T, Reinikka T, Rouvinen J, et al. Programmable Accelerators for Reconfigurable Video Decoder. In: Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation: 9th International Workshop, SAMOS 2009, Samos, Greece, July 20-23, 2009. Proceedings. (Bertels K, Dimopoulos N, Silvano C, et al. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2009; pp. 36–47.

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. Man Claims Tropical Spider Burrowed Under His Skin Via Appendix Scar. IFLScience; 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tropical-spider-burrowed-man-s-torso-appendix-scar/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Local Television Act: Status of Spending for Fiscal Year 2003. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Frederick K. Wool and Water. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University: Boca Raton, FL; 2009.

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

Vecsey G. A Hockey Luminary Glowed With Modesty. New York Times 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