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]

Apkarian VA. Chemistry. A pixellated window on chemistry in solids. Science 2006;313:1747–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Peng L, Mortensen NA. Plasmonic-cavity model for radiating nano-rod antennas. Sci Rep 2014;4:3825.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lee JLC, Everitt BJ, Thomas KL. Independent cellular processes for hippocampal memory consolidation and reconsolidation. Science 2004;304:839–43.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gore J, Bryant Z, Nöllmann M, Le MU, Cozzarelli NR, Bustamante C. DNA overwinds when stretched. Nature 2006;442:836–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Henry-Labordère A. Virtual Roaming Systems for GSM, GPRS and UMTS. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Jezic G, Kusek M, Lovrek I, J. Howlett R, Jain LC, editors. Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference KES-AMSTA 2014 Chania, Greece, June 2014. vol. 296. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nagaraja H. Characterizations of Probability Distributions. In: Pham H, editor. Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics, London: Springer; 2006, 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 Future Dental Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. Watch An Entire Lake Disappear Down A Hole. 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. Genetically Engineered Crops: USDA Needs to Enhance Oversight and Better Understand Impacts of Unintended Mixing with Other Crops. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Naik M. Automating the process of antibiotic susceptibility testing. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Williams J. Alcoholism in America. New York Times 2017:BR4.

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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