How to format your references using the Drug Delivery and Translational Research citation style

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

1. Kroes G-J. Frontiers in surface scattering simulations. Science. 2008;321:794–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dudin YO, Kuzmich A. Strongly interacting Rydberg excitations of a cold atomic gas. Science. 2012;336:887–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McCord TB, Hansen GB, Hibbitts CA. Hydrated salt minerals on Ganymede’s surface: evidence of an ocean below. Science. 2001;292:1523–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Vita H, Böttcher S, Horn K, Voloshina EN, Ovcharenko RE, Kampen T, et al. Understanding the origin of band gap formation in graphene on metals: graphene on Cu/Ir(111). Sci Rep. 2014;4:5704.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Szczecinski L, Alvarado A. Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Gabbay DM. Conditionals and Modularity in General Logics. Schlechta K, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Zhimin C. International Responsibility, Multilateralism, and China’s Foreign Policy. In: Telò M, editor. State, Globalization and Multilateralism: The challenges of institutionalizing regionalism. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 79–95.

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 Drug Delivery and Translational Research.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Won’t Somebody Think Of The Children? Five Reasons Why Drug Panics Are Counterproductive [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/won-t-somebody-think-children-five-reasons-why-drug-panics-are-counterproductive/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle: Action Needed to Improve Visibility into Cost, Schedule, and Capacity to Resolve Technical Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Jul. Report No.: GAO-16-620.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Emmerling-Baker D. A Qualitative Interpretive Phenomenological Study of K5 Teacher Perceptions of Classroom Empathy Instruction [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 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

1. Koblin J. CBS Wrongly Reports Singer’s Death. New York Times. 2017 Oct 2;B3.

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	Drug Delivery and Translational Research
Abbreviation	Drug Deliv. Transl. Res.
ISSN (print)	2190-393X
ISSN (online)	2190-3948
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science