How to format your references using the Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems (CRT). 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 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

Mellars P. Palaeoanthropology: the earliest modern humans in Europe. Nature. 2011 Nov 23;479(7374):483–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stebbins CE, Galán JE. Structural mimicry in bacterial virulence. Nature. 2001 Aug 16;412(6848):701–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nowak MA, Tarnita CE, Wilson EO. The evolution of eusociality. Nature. 2010 Aug 26;466(7310):1057–62.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kinoshita T, Caño-Delgado A, Seto H, Hiranuma S, Fujioka S, Yoshida S, et al. Binding of brassinosteroids to the extracellular domain of plant receptor kinase BRI1. Nature. 2005 Jan 13;433(7022):167–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sommers-Flanagan J, Sommers-Flanagan R. Tough Kids Cool Counseling. Alexandria, VA, USA: American Counseling Association; 2015.

An edited book

Mikulski J, editor. Telematics - Support for Transport: 14th International Conference on Transport Systems Telematics, TST 2014, Katowice/Kraków/Ustroń, Poland, October 22-25, 2014. Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. XIV, 470 p. 215 illus. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 471).

A chapter in an edited book

Tickle L. The Crucible of the Classroom. In: Beijaard D, Meijer PC, Morine-Dershimer G, Tillema H, editors. Teacher Professional Development in Changing Conditions. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. p. 61–77.

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 Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Breakthrough In Search For Life As Seven Earth-Sized Worlds Found Orbiting Nearby Star. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/breakthrough-in-search-for-life-as-seven-earthsized-worlds-found-orbiting-nearby-star/

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. Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Progress in Providing Special Education Services to Indian Children. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Sep. Report No.: CED-79-121.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gomes S. The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act and the effects of deinstitutionalization on the mentally ill [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Feuer A. A Campaign to Preserve the Ordinary. New York Times. 2015 Apr 5;MB1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems
ISSN (print)	0743-4863
ISSN (online)	2162-660X
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