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.P. Ramirez, Geometric frustration: Magic moments, Nature 421 (2003) 483.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.T. Villaume, P.S. Baran, Organic chemistry: Reactivity tamed one bond at a time, Nature 513 (2014) 324–325.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.C. Finlay, G.E. Small, R.W. Sterner, Human influences on nitrogen removal in lakes, Science 342 (2013) 247–250.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.S. Mischenko, Q. Zhang, J.F. Scott, R.W. Whatmore, N.D. Mathur, Giant electrocaloric effect in thin-film PbZr(0.95)Ti(0.05)O3, Science 311 (2006) 1270–1271.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W.Y. Svrcek, D.P. Mahoney, B.R. Young, A Real-Time Approach to Process Control, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

J. Cuevas-Maraver, P.G. Kevrekidis, F. Williams, eds., The sine-Gordon Model and its Applications: From Pendula and Josephson Junctions to Gravity and High-Energy Physics, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Stollberg, D. Fensel, Semantics for Service-Oriented Architectures, in: N. Griffiths, K.-M. Chao (Eds.), Agent-Based Service-Oriented Computing, Springer, London, 2010: pp. 113–139.

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]

R. Andrews, Dinosaur Crater Drilling Project Declared A “Fantastic Success,” IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/pioneering-effort-drill-through-dinosaur-killing-impact-crater-declared-outstanding/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, NASA Procurement: Use of Award Fees for Achieving Program Outcomes Should Be Improved, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Pundir, Surface pressure fluctuations due to an impinging underexpanded supersonic jet, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2011.

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]

E. St. John Kelly, Bikes That Roll Toward Jobs, New York Times (1998) 149.

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