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. Nabel GJ. Philosophy of science. The coordinates of truth. Science. 2009;326:53–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Podsiadlowski P, Justham S. Astronomy. Big bang points to stellar mix-up. Science. 2006;314:1551–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Childs AM, Gosset D, Webb Z. Universal computation by multiparticle quantum walk. Science. 2013;339:791–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Jardine AP, Dworski S, Fouquet P, Alexandrowicz G, Riley DJ, Lee GYH, et al. Ultrahigh-resolution spin-echo measurement of surface potential energy landscapes. Science. 2004;304:1790–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lado EP. The Common Fisheries Policy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. O’Connell DC. Communicating with One Another: Toward a Psychology of Spontaneous Spoken Discourse. Kowal S, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wang G, Gao Y, Chen L, Wang Y-J, Lin H-K. Regulation of the Novel Senescence Pathway by SKP2 E3 Ligase. In: Hayat MA, editor. Tumor Dormancy, Quiescence, and Senescence, Volume 2: Aging, Cancer, and Noncancer Pathologies. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 33–43.

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. Andrew E. The UAE Wants To Build A ‘Rainmaking Mountain’ – Are We All Ok With That? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/uae-wants-build-rainmaking-mountain-are-we-all-ok/

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. Summary of a GAO Conference: Helping California Youths with Disabilities Transition to Work or Postsecondary Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Jun. Report No.: GAO-06-759SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Arnold DM. An Examination of Job Satisfaction Among Full-Time Faculty in a Selected Mississippi Community College [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2017.

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. Vecsey G. Fans Voice Frustration, But Mets Leave It Behind. New York Times. 2010 Apr 6;B15.

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