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. Weintraub K. Drug development: Releasing the brakes. Nature. 2013;504:S6-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schneggenburger R, Neher E. Intracellular calcium dependence of transmitter release rates at a fast central synapse. Nature. 2000;406:889–93.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Elia AEH, Cantley LC, Yaffe MB. Proteomic screen finds pSer/pThr-binding domain localizing Plk1 to mitotic substrates. Science. 2003;299:1228–31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Brembs B, Lorenzetti FD, Reyes FD, Baxter DA, Byrne JH. Operant reward learning in Aplysia: neuronal correlates and mechanisms. Science. 2002;296:1706–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Esch GW. Ecological Parasitology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Borutzky W, editor. Bond Graph Modelling of Engineering Systems: Theory, Applications and Software Support. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Xu Y, Zeng Z. A Low Redundancy and High Coverage Node Scheduling Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Sun L, Ma H, Fang D, Niu J, Wang W, editors. Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks: The 8th China Conference, CWSN 2014, Xi’an, China, October 31--November 2, 2014 Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 42–51.

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. Carpineti A. People Shout “Aliens!” After Mistaking An Image Of The Sun For A UFO [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/people-shout-aliens-after-mistaking-an-image-of-the-sun-for-a-ufo/

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. Need for Disclosing Items Developed in Programs Funded Under Federal Grants. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971 Jan. Report No.: 093038.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Topdemir CM. School counselor accountability practices: A national study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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. Kishkovsky S. Magazine Is New in Moscow, but Looks Familiar to New York. New York Times. 2004 Aug 21;A4.

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