How to format your references using the Journal of Controlled Release citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Controlled Release. 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

[1]

M. Skipper, Evolution: Finches sequenced, Nature 518 (2015) 308.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Epshtein, E. Nudler, Cooperation between RNA polymerase molecules in transcription elongation, Science 300 (2003) 801–805.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.G. Victor, J.C. House, S. Joy, Climate. A Madisonian approach to climate policy, Science 309 (2005) 1820–1821.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Hiramoto, Y. Hiromi, E. Giniger, Y. Hotta, The Drosophila Netrin receptor Frazzled guides axons by controlling Netrin distribution, Nature 406 (2000) 886–889.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Lalanne, Fatigue Damage, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

J. Garcia-Alfaro, G. Lioudakis, N. Cuppens-Boulahia, S. Foley, W.M. Fitzgerald, eds., Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security: 8th International Workshop, DPM 2013, and 6th International Workshop, SETOP 2013, Egham, UK, September 12-13, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Koufi, F. Malamateniou, G. Vassilacopoulos, Privacy-Preserving Access Control for PHR-Based Emergency Medical Systems, in: D.-D. Koutsouris, A.A. Lazakidou (Eds.), Concepts and Trends in Healthcare Information Systems, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 61–78.

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 Journal of Controlled Release.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Apes Make Irrational Economic Decisions – That Includes You, IFLScience (2015).

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: Challenges to Assessing and Improving Telecommunications For Native Americans on Tribal Lands, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.M. Israel, Student Extracurricular Participation, Student Achievement, and School Perception: an Elementary School Perspective, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2013.

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]

K. Crow, Dreams Taste Bittersweet As a Small Store Is Sold, New York Times (2002) 145.

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	Journal of Controlled Release
Abbreviation	J. Control. Release
ISSN (print)	0168-3659
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science