How to format your references using the Therapeutic Delivery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Therapeutic Delivery. 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

Gregory CD. Cell biology: The disassembly of death. Nature. 507(7492), 312–313 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Calabrese EJ, Baldwin LA. Toxicology rethinks its central belief. Nature. 421(6924), 691–692 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

Assender H, Bliznyuk V, Porfyrakis K. How surface topography relates to materials’ properties. Science. 297(5583), 973–976 (2002).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nejentsev S, Walker N, Riches D, Egholm M, Todd JA. Rare variants of IFIH1, a gene implicated in antiviral responses, protect against type 1 diabetes. Science. 324(5925), 387–389 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shook JR. The God Debates. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Leskow J, Punzo LF, Anyul MP, editors. New Tools of Economic Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ozel I, Atiyas İ. Regulatory Diffusion in Turkey: A Cross-sectoral Assessment. In: The Political Economy of Regulation in Turkey. Çetin T, Oğuz F (Eds.), Springer, New York, NY, 51–73 (2011).

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 Therapeutic Delivery.

Blog post

Fang J. New Membrane Keeps Your Heart Beating. IFLScience (2014).

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

Government Accountability Office. Air Traffic Control: Status of the Current Modernization Program and Planning for the Next Generation System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Curti CL. Talking About Science Interests: The Importance of Feedback Appraisals When Students Talk About Their Interests in STEM. (2017).

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

Liptak A, Wines M. Justices Thwart Strict Voter ID Law That Unevenly Hurt Blacks. New York Times, A1 (2017).

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	Therapeutic Delivery
Abbreviation	Ther. Deliv.
ISSN (print)	2041-5990
ISSN (online)	2041-6008
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science