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 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

Koff WC. Accelerating HIV vaccine development. Nature 2010;464(7286):161–162.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weaver AJ, Hillaire-Marcel C. Ocean science. Global warming and the next ice age. Science 2004;304(5669):400–402.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen X, Parker D, Singh DJ. Importance of non-parabolic band effects in the thermoelectric properties of semiconductors. Sci Rep 2013;3:3168.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kawamichi T, Haneda T, Kawano M, et al. X-ray observation of a transient hemiaminal trapped in a porous network. Nature 2009;461(7264):633–635.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gavin H, Porter T. Female Aggression. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2014.

An edited book

Loh CS, Sheng Y, Ifenthaler D, (eds). Serious Games Analytics: Methodologies for Performance Measurement, Assessment, and Improvement. Advances in Game-Based Learning. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Han J-M, Yi B-J. An Orbital Velocity-Based Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for Surgical Robots. In: Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12: Volume 2 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference IAS-12, Held June 26-29, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea. (Lee S, Cho H, Yoon K-J, et al. eds). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2013; pp. 37–50.

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. Scientists Baffled To Find Sharks Living Inside An Active Volcano. IFLScience; 2015. [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. District of Columbia Public Schools: Important Steps Taken to Continue Reform Efforts, But Enhanced Planning Could Improve Implementation and Sustainability. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lakin BK. Reading First Program Effects on Students with Disabilities. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University: St. Charles, MO; 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

McKINLEY JC Jr. Prosecutors Drop Charges Against a Bronx Teenager. New York Times 2017;A20.

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