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]

Garrett BC. Chemistry. Ions at the air/water interface. Science 2004;303:1146–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brosnan SF, De Waal FBM. Monkeys reject unequal pay. Nature 2003;425:297–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Miller SP, Lunzer M, Dean AM. Direct demonstration of an adaptive constraint. Science 2006;314:458–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ma H, Ren H, Meng S, Sun F, Zhu G. Novel porphyrinic porous organic frameworks for high performance separation of small hydrocarbons. Sci Rep 2013;3:2611.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bennett MR, Hacker PMS. History of Cognitive Neuroscience. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Tao X. Group Cell Architecture for Cooperative Communications. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Falzon K, Bodden E. Dynamically Provisioning Isolation in Hierarchical Architectures. In: Lopez J, Mitchell CJ, editors. Information Security: 18th International Conference, ISC 2015, Trondheim, Norway, September 9-11, 2015, Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 83–101.

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]

Andrew D. What Is Normal Vaginal Discharge And What’s Not? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-is-normal-vaginal-discharge-and-whats-not/ (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. Review of NASA Contract To Determine Procedures Used in Negotiating Noncompetitive Contracts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Felarca CU. A burning problem: Skin protection practices among college nursing students and non-nursing college students. 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]

Schwartz J. Pardon My Sweat, Pass the Borscht. New York Times 2017:D1.

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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