How to format your references using the Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems (CRT). 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bucksbaum PH. The future of attosecond spectroscopy. Science. 2007 Aug 10;317(5839):766–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Siaj M, McBreen PH. Creating, varying, and growing single-site molecular contacts. Science. 2005 Jul 22;309(5734):588–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harper SM, Neil LC, Gardner KH. Structural basis of a phototropin light switch. Science. 2003 Sep 12;301(5639):1541–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li J, Wang Z, Chen C, Huang S. Atomic-scale observation of migration and coalescence of Au nanoclusters on YSZ surface by aberration-corrected STEM. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul 1;4:5521.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duchon C, Hale R. Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Griffiths MR. Value Economics: The Ethical Implications of Value for New Economic Thinking. Lucas JR, editor. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. XV, 281 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Vilanova JC, Roca M, Baleato S. Bone Marrow. In: Vilanova JC, editor. Learning Musculoskeletal Imaging. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 67–88. (Learning Imaging).

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 Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems.

Blog post

Hale T. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. If You Use One Of These Popular Internet Services, You Need To Change Your Password Right Now. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/millions-passwords-hotmail-gmail-and-yahoo-have-been-stolen/

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. Electronic Health Records: HHS Strategy to Address Information Exchange Challenges Lacks Specific Prioritized Actions and Milestones. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Mar. Report No.: GAO-14-242.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Oh Y. Prediction of Steady State Response in Dynamic Mode Atomic Force Microscopy and Its Applications in Nano-metrology [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2006.

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

Murphy MJO. Friday File: When the Ball First Dropped on New Year’s Eve. New York Times. 2016 Jan 1;C26.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems
ISSN (print)	0743-4863
ISSN (online)	2162-660X
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