How to format your references using the Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology. 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]

D.P. DiVincenzo, Physics. Double quantum dot as a quantum bit, Science 309 (2005) 2173–2174.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Frank, R.W. Friedrich, Neurobiology: Individuality sniffed out in flies, Nature 526 (2015) 200–201.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.A. Butler, S.A. Sawyer, J.B. Losos, Sexual dimorphism and adaptive radiation in Anolis lizards, Nature 447 (2007) 202–205.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. El Goresy, M. Chen, L. Dubrovinsky, P. Gillet, G. Graup, An ultradense polymorph of rutile with seven-coordinated titanium from the Ries crater, Science 293 (2001) 1467–1470.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Jakubith, Grundoperationen und chemische Reaktionstechnik, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 1998.

An edited book

[1]

M. Atallah, X.-Y. Li, B. Zhu, eds., Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: Joint International Conference, FAW-AAIM 2011, Jinhua, China, May 28-31, 2011. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Shafique, J. Henkel, Adaptive Low-Power Video Coding, in: J. Henkel (Ed.), Hardware/Software Architectures for Low-Power Embedded Multimedia Systems, Springer, New York, NY, 2011: pp. 69–122.

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 Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Nanotechnology Could Make Our Food Tastier And Healthier – But Can We Stomach It?, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/nanotechnology-could-make-our-food-tastier-and-healthier-but-can-we-stomach-it/ (accessed October 30, 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, Business Systems Modernization: IRS’s Fiscal Year 2004 Expenditure Plan, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.D. Brown, Disparity in healthcare among Black Americans in the United States, a review of the literature, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

B. Kenigsberg, The Listings; Film Series, New York Times (2016) C28.

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	Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Drug Deliv. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1773-2247
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science