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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Gouverneur V. Chemistry. A new departure in fluorination chemistry. Science. 325(5948), 1630–1631 (2009).
A journal article with 2 authors
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Chatterjee S, Callaway EM. Parallel colour-opponent pathways to primary visual cortex. Nature. 426(6967), 668–671 (2003).
A journal article with 3 authors
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Hernández AR, Klein AM, Kirschner MW. Kinetic responses of β-catenin specify the sites of Wnt control. Science. 338(6112), 1337–1340 (2012).
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Ose T, Watanabe K, Mie T, et al. Insight into a natural Diels-Alder reaction from the structure of macrophomate synthase. Nature. 422(6928), 185–189 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Raghavan V. Combustion Technology. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.
An edited book
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Skof F, editor. Giuseppe Peano between Mathematics and Logic: Proceeding of the International Conference in honour of Giuseppe Peano on the 150th anniversary of his birth and the centennial of the Formulario Mathematico, Turin (Italy), October 2–3,2008. Springer, Milano.
A chapter in an edited book
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Harnesk D, Lindström J. Materializing Organizational Information Security. In: Nordic Contributions in IS Research: Third Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2012, Sigtuna, Sweden, August 17–20, 2012. Proceedings. Keller C, Wiberg M, Ågerfalk PJ, Eriksson Lundström JSZ (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 76–94 (2012).

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
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Andrew E. Ebola Outbreak’s Patient Zero Identified As A Toddler From Guinea. 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
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Government Accountability Office. Space Exploration: Power Sources for Deep Space Probes. 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
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Gonzalez R. A mentoring program for Latino foster youth: A grant proposal. (2010).

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
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Billard M. If Your Boyfriend Is Metrosexual. New York Times, E5 (2010).

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 titleTherapeutic Delivery
AbbreviationTher. Deliv.
ISSN (print)2041-5990
ISSN (online)2041-6008
ScopePharmaceutical Science

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