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]

Rickaby R. Journal club. A biogeochemist weighs up the climatic influence of CO2. Nature 2010;465:849.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Klankermayer J, Leitner W. CHEMISTRY. Love at second sight for CO₂ and H₂ in organic synthesis. Science 2015;350:629–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dillon ME, Wang G, Huey RB. Global metabolic impacts of recent climate warming. Nature 2010;467:704–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kiel MJ, He S, Ashkenazi R, Gentry SN, Teta M, Kushner JA, et al. Haematopoietic stem cells do not asymmetrically segregate chromosomes or retain BrdU. Nature 2007;449:238–42.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chen K-H. Power Management Techniques for Integrated Circuit Design. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Sabatier J, Agrawal OP, Machado JAT, editors. Advances in Fractional Calculus: Theoretical Developments and Applications in Physics and Engineering. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Meaghan D. Stigma to Sage: Learning and Teaching Safer Sex Practices Among Canadian Sex Trade Workers. In: Church K, Bascia N, Shragge E, editors. Learning through Community: Exploring Participatory Practices, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008, p. 55–71.

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]

Carpineti A. Pluto’s Interaction With The Solar Wind Is Completely Unique. IFLScience 2016.

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. Aviation and the Environment: FAA’s and NASA’s Research and Development Plans for Noise Reduction Are Aligned but the Prospects of Achieving Noise Reduction Goals Are Uncertain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lackey GM. The efficacy of using a natural soil additive for the establishment, survival and diversity of native prairie and spontaneously colonizing plant communities on unirrigated green roofs in a humid subtropical climate. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, 2015.

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]

Wagner J. Lugo, Paying No Mind to His Elbow, Earns Dividends. New York Times 2017:D5.

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
Scope