How to format your references using the Future Journal of Pharmaceutical sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Future Journal of Pharmaceutical sciences. 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]

F. Simpson, Resistance to mantle flow inferred from the electromagnetic strike of the Australian upper mantle, Nature 412 (2001) 632–635.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.D. Lukin, A. Imamoğlu, Controlling photons using electromagnetically induced transparency, Nature 413 (2001) 273–276.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W. Lutz, W. Sanderson, S. Scherbov, The end of world population growth, Nature 412 (2001) 543–545.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Du, J. Wen, Y. Wang, P.W.F. Karmaus, A. Khatamian, H. Tan, Y. Li, C. Guy, T.-L.M. Nguyen, Y. Dhungana, G. Neale, J. Peng, J. Yu, H. Chi, Hippo/Mst signalling couples metabolic state and immune function of CD8α+ dendritic cells, Nature 558 (2018) 141–145.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.R. Kiehl, M.B.C. Mays, Atlas for the Diagnosis of Tumors in the Dog and Cat, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

G.C. Bitros, N.C. Kyriazis, eds., Essays in Contemporary Economics: A Festschrift in Memory of A. D. Karayiannis, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Dyreson, H. Jin, A Synthetic, Trend-Based Benchmark for XPath, in: L. Chen, C. Liu, Q. Liu, K. Deng (Eds.), Database Systems for Advanced Applications: DASFAA 2009 International Workshops: BenchmarX, MCIS, WDPP, PPDA, MBC, PhD, Brisbane, Australia, April 20 - 23, 2009, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 35–48.

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 Journal of Pharmaceutical sciences.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Chimps Can Make Silent Laugh Faces, Just Like Us, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimps-make-faces-even-when-theyre-laughing-silently-us/ (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, FTS2001: Transition Challenges Jeopardize Program Goals, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.J. Zoino, Field Methods, Sampling Strategies, Historical Documents, and Data Redundancy: A Study of Historic Tenant Farmsteads in Leflore County, Mississippi, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 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]

P. Applebome, In Detroit’s Recovery, Downtown Roars and Neighborhoods Sputter, New York Times (2016) A9.

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 Journal of Pharmaceutical sciences
Abbreviation	Futur. J. Pharm. Sci.
ISSN (print)	2314-7245
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