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]

D.L. Katz, Perspective: Obesity is not a disease, Nature 508 (2014) S57.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Bezdek, R. Wendling, Recruiters and industry. Job creation and environmental protection, Nature 434 (2005) 678.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.N. Loh, J.E. Bauer, E.R.M. Druffel, Variable ageing and storage of dissolved organic components in the open ocean, Nature 430 (2004) 877–881.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Cui, M.P. Levesque, T. Vernoux, J.W. Jung, A.J. Paquette, K.L. Gallagher, J.Y. Wang, I. Blilou, B. Scheres, P.N. Benfey, An evolutionarily conserved mechanism delimiting SHR movement defines a single layer of endodermis in plants, Science 316 (2007) 421–425.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.P. Peca, Real Estate Development and Investment, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

C. Tuniz, Humans: An Unauthorized Biography, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Softic, B. Taraghi, M. Ebner, L. De Vocht, E. Mannens, R. Van de Walle, Monitoring Learning Activities in PLE Using Semantic Modelling of Learner Behaviour, in: A. Holzinger, M. Ziefle, M. Hitz, M. Debevc (Eds.), Human Factors in Computing and Informatics: First International Conference, SouthCHI 2013, Maribor, Slovenia, July 1-3, 2013. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 74–90.

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]

T. Hale, Loneliness Could Be In Your DNA, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/loneliness-could-be-in-your-dna/ (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, Commuter Rail Service in Wisconsin and Illinois, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V.M. Richardson, In vitro thyroid hormone metabolism: Effects of nuclear receptor activation on the metabolic profiles of thyroxine in rat and human hepatocytes, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2013.

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]

M. Cooper, A Beloved Russian Baritone’s Surprise Return, New York Times (2017) C4.

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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