How to format your references using the Future Dental Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Future Dental Journal. 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

[1]

Brook RJ. W. David Kingery (1926-2000). Nature 2000;406:582.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wang ZX, Schleyer PR. Construction principles of “hyparenes”: families of molecules with planar pentacoordinate carbons. Science 2001;292:2465–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bali E, Audétat A, Keppler H. Water and hydrogen are immiscible in Earth’s mantle. Nature 2013;495:220–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Almeida VR, Barrios CA, Panepucci RR, Lipson M. All-optical control of light on a silicon chip. Nature 2004;431:1081–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lewis RJ Sr. Hazardous Chemicals Desk Reference, Sixth Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Ma C, Huang Y, editors. Translational Research in Pain and Itch. vol. 904. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jen W, Chang W, Chou S. Cybercrime in Taiwan – An Analysis of Suspect Records. In: Chen H, Wang F-Y, Yang CC, Zeng D, Chau M, Chang K, editors. Intelligence and Security Informatics: International Workshop, WISI 2006, Singapore, April 9, 2006. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 38–48.

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 Future Dental Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. How Internet Porn Affects Romantic Life. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-internet-porn-affects-romantic-life/ (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. Third Party Funding Agreements: No Longer Appropriate for Serving the Handicapped Through the Vocational Rehabilitation Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Spindel SA. Evaluation of optical sensor platforms for multiplexed detection of proteins. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2014.

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]

Greenhouse L. Chasing Abortion Rights Across the State Line. New York Times 2016:SR5.

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	Future Dental Journal
Abbreviation	Futur. Dent. J.
ISSN (print)	2314-7180
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