How to format your references using the International Journal of Pharmaceutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Premack, D., 2004. Psychology. Is language the key to human intelligence? Science 303, 318–320.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heyduk, A.F., Nocera, D.G., 2001. Hydrogen produced from hydrohalic acid solutions by a two-electron mixed-valence photocatalyst. Science 293, 1639–1641.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kortenkamp, S.J., Wetherill, G.W., Inaba, S., 2001. Runaway growth of planetary embryos facilitated by massive bodies in a protoplanetary disk. Science 293, 1127–1129.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hönisch, B., Hemming, N.G., Archer, D., Siddall, M., McManus, J.F., 2009. Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration across the mid-Pleistocene transition. Science 324, 1551–1554.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meinert, C.L., 2012. Clinical Trials Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sarwat, M., Ahmad, A., Abdin, M.Z. (Eds.), 2013. Stress Signaling in Plants: Genomics and Proteomics Perspective, Volume 1. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Shimizu, Y., Williams, G., 2013. Studying Learners in Intercultural Contexts, in: Clements, M.A. (ken), Bishop, A.J., Keitel, C., Kilpatrick, J., Leung, F.K.S. (Eds.), Third International Handbook of Mathematics Education. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 145–167.

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 International Journal of Pharmaceutics.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. Largest Survey Yet Finds Fluoridation Safe And Effective [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/largest-survey-yet-finds-fluoridation-safe-and-effective/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1993. Space Station: Program Instability and Cost Growth Continue Pending Redesign (No. NSIAD-93-187). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Barkley, W.C., 2008. Mars rover - Laser focusing and optimization (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Schwirtz, M., Rashbaum, W.K., 2017. Accused of Spying, a New York City Correction Official Is Removed. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Premack, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Heyduk and Nocera, 2001; Premack, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Heyduk and Nocera, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Hönisch et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Pharmaceutics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pharm.
ISSN (print)	0378-5173
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science