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

Stokstad E. MARINE CONSERVATION: Virginia Gets Crabby About Harvest Limits. Science. 289(5482), 1122a (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

Vance SA, Sandros MG. Zeptomole detection of C-reactive protein in serum by a nanoparticle amplified surface plasmon resonance imaging aptasensor. Sci. Rep. 4, 5129 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

Ravishankara AR, Daniel JS, Portmann RW. Nitrous oxide (N2O): the dominant ozone-depleting substance emitted in the 21st century. Science. 326(5949), 123–125 (2009).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Reardon PK, Seidlitz J, Vandekar S, et al. Normative brain size variation and brain shape diversity in humans. Science. 360(6394), 1222–1227 (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cleaver H, Cawson P, Gorin S, Walker S. Safeguarding Children. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Hadjiski M, Kasabov N, Filev D, Jotsov V, editors. Novel Applications of Intelligent Systems. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Goyal P, Hwang PH. Septal and Turbinate Surgery. In: Rhinologic and Sleep Apnea Surgical Techniques. Kountakis SE, Önerci M (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 49–59 (2007).

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

Andrew E. Could Megalodon Still Live In The Deep Ocean? 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. Tax Systems Modernization: Update on Critical Issues Facing IRS. 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

Giles CL. Faculty mentoring of undergraduate students: A qualitative phenomenological study. (2015).

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

Schwartz J. Students, Cities and States Take the Global Warming Fight to Court. New York Times, A11 (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