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

Pennisi E. GENOMICS: Rat Genome Off to an Early Start. Science. 289(5483), 1267b–9b (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

McCarthy PM, Smith WA. Mechanical circulatory support--a long and winding road. Science. 295(5557), 998–999 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

McDougall I, Brown FH, Fleagle JG. Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia. Nature. 433(7027), 733–736 (2005).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Allman BE, McMahon PJ, Nugent KA, et al. Phase radiography with neutrons. Nature. 408(6809), 158–159 (2000).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chang CM. Service Systems Management and Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ortiz-Arroyo D, Larsen HL, Zeng DD, Hicks D, Wagner G, editors. Intelligence and Security Informatics: First European Conference, EuroISI 2008, Esbjerg, Denmark, December 3-5, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Devaraj P, Yugesh S. Reconstruction of Multiply Generated Splines from Local Average Samples. In: Mathematical Analysis and its Applications: Roorkee, India, December 2014. Agrawal PN, Mohapatra RN, Singh U, Srivastava HM (Eds.), Springer India, New Delhi, 63–72 (2015).

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. Study Claims $28 Billion A Year Is Spent On Biomedical Research That Can’t Be Reproduced. IFLScience (2015).

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. VA Student Financial Aid: Actions Needed to Reduce Overlap in Approval Activities. 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

Grefe SE. Plasmonic and topological insulator nanostructures and metamaterials nanoscale near-field investigations: Experiment and theory. (2013).

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

Sisario B. Johnny Cash Has Now Become the Poet in Black. New York Times, C1 (2016).

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

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