How to format your references using the Drug Delivery and Translational Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drug Delivery and Translational Research. 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

1. Vignieri S. Vanishing fauna. Introduction. Science. 2014;345:392–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gray N, Chouard T. Neurotechniques. Nature. 2009;461:899.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lebedev S, Chevrot S, van der Hilst RD. Seismic evidence for olivine phase changes at the 410- and 660-kilometer discontinuities. Science. 2002;296:1300–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bouwens RJ, Illingworth GD, Labbe I, Oesch PA, Trenti M, Carollo CM, et al. A candidate redshift z ≈ 10 galaxy and rapid changes in that population at an age of 500 Myr. Nature. 2011;469:504–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hersent O. IP Telephony. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

1. Chaudhry A. Analysis of Excitation and Ionization of Atoms and Molecules by Electron Impact. Kleinpoppen H, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cho ES, Cha JE, Yang YJ. MARMI-RE: A Method and Tools for Legacy System Modernization. In: Dosch W, Lee RY, Wu C, editors. Software Engineering Research and Applications: Second International Conference, SERA 2004, Los Angeles, CA, USA, MAY 5-7, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 42–57.

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 Drug Delivery and Translational Research.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Comet 67P Smells Like Cat Pee, Almonds, And Rotten Eggs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/comet-67p-smells-like-cat-pee-almonds-and-rotten-eggs/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Performance Management and Strengthen Oversight of the High-Cost Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Jun. Report No.: GAO-08-633.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Davidson JM. Transitional age youth—a program expansion to enhance existing services in Sonoma County: A grant-writing project [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

1. Schmitt E. U.S. Says Its ISIS Fight Isn’t Raising Civilian Risks. New York Times. 2017 May 20;A5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Drug Delivery and Translational Research
Abbreviation	Drug Deliv. Transl. Res.
ISSN (print)	2190-393X
ISSN (online)	2190-3948
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science