How to format your references using the Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology. 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]

A. Milani, Astronomy. Extraterrestrial material--virtual or real hazards?, Science 300 (2003) 1882–1883.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.D. Ward, M. Kellis, Evidence of abundant purifying selection in humans for recently acquired regulatory functions, Science 337 (2012) 1675–1678.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Taniguchi, J. Lu, Z.J. Huang, The spatial and temporal origin of chandelier cells in mouse neocortex, Science 339 (2013) 70–74.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Pushkarsky, Y. Liu, Y. Lyb, W. Weaver, T.-W. Su, O. Mudanyali, A. Ozcan, D. Di Carlo, Automated single-cell motility analysis on a chip using lensfree microscopy, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4717.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Millon, S. Grossman, Moderating Severe Personality Disorders, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

P.M. Visakh, Y. Arao, eds., Flame Retardants: Polymer Blends, Composites and Nanocomposites, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Danciu, V. Răsvan, Gradient Like Behavior and High Gain Design of KWTA Neural Networks, in: J. Cabestany, F. Sandoval, A. Prieto, J.M. Corchado (Eds.), Bio-Inspired Systems: Computational and Ambient Intelligence: 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2009, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009. Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 24–32.

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 Drug Delivery Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Astronomers Have Found The Most Massive Brown Dwarf Ever, IFLScience (2017).

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, FCC: Development of Technical and Spectrum Requirements for Meeting Public Safety Agency Communication Requirements Through 2010, Establishment of Rules and Requirements for Priority Access Service, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.M. Smith, Meanings of “design” in instructional technology: A conceptual analysis based on the field’s foundational literature, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2008.

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]

G. Vecsey, Yankees and Red Sox Make September Meaningful, New York Times (2010) B17.

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 Drug Delivery Science and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Drug Deliv. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1773-2247
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science