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

Schiermeier Q: Review panel assails Brussels research bureaucracy. Nature 2000;406(6794):336.

A journal article with 2 authors

Faccenna C, Becker TW: Shaping mobile belts by small-scale convection. Nature 2010;465(7298):602-605.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu X, Han F, Zhao Q: Homologies and homeotic transformation of the theropod “semilunate” carpal. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:6042.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Delahaye J, Hassel J, Lindell R, Sillanpää M, Paalanen M, Seppä H, Hakonen P: Low-noise current amplifier based on mesoscopic Josephson junction. Science 2003;299(5609):1045-1048.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fraser J, Simkins BJ: Enterprise Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Ismail M: Cooperative Networking in a Heterogeneous Wireless Medium. (Zhuang W, ed.). New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Van Dijck G, Van Hulle MM: Speeding Up the Wrapper Feature Subset Selection in Regression by Mutual Information Relevance and Redundancy Analysis. In: Kollias SD, Stafylopatis A, Duch W, Oja E, eds. Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2006: 16th International Conference, Athens, Greece, September 10-14, 2006. Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006:31-40.

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: New Analysis Suggests Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Destabilizing. IFLScience 2014. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earth-s-magnetic-field-about-flip/. 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: Transportation Activities 1946-1975: Interview with Joseph P. Normile, Fred J. Shafer, and Thomas E. Sullivan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Perantoni EJ: Course design based on the Kolb learning style as it relates to student success in online classes. 2010.

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

Branch J, Pilon M: A Careful Evangelical. New York Times. March 28, 2012:B11.

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

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