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. Macilwain C. Rejection of GM crops is not a failure for science. Nature. 2015;525:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schuppan D, Hahn EG. Biomedicine. Gluten and the gut-lessons for immune regulation. Science. 2002;297:2218–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Begley CG, Buchan AM, Dirnagl U. Robust research: Institutions must do their part for reproducibility. Nature. 2015;525:25–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cernilogar FM, Onorati MC, Kothe GO, Burroughs AM, Parsi KM, Breiling A, et al. Chromatin-associated RNA interference components contribute to transcriptional regulation in Drosophila. Nature. 2011;480:391–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Minoli D. IP Multicast with Applications to IPTV and Mobile DVB-H. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

1. McDowell MA, Rafati S, editors. Neglected Tropical Diseases - Middle East and North Africa. Vienna: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fischer H, Nebe K, Klompmaker F. A Holistic Model for Integrating Usability Engineering and Software Engineering Enriched with Marketing Activities. In: Kurosu M, editor. Human Centered Design: Second International Conference, HCD 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 28–37.

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. Fang J. Evidence Of Recent Volcanic Activity On The Moon Found [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/volcanoes-erupted-moon-within-last-100-million-years/

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. Information Technology: Continued Attention Needed to Accurately Report Federal Spending and Improve Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Jul. Report No.: GAO-11-831T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fischer D. Psychology and people living with hiv/aids: A critical review of the literature [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2012.

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. Schwartz J. Measure in Florida That Claims to Support Solar Power Could Discourage It. New York Times. 2016 Oct 27;A17.

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

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