How to format your references using the Future Medicinal Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Future Medicinal Chemistry. 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

Redfield S. Astronomy. Gathering interstellar gas. Science. 336(6086), 1243–1244 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

Gal-Yam A, Leonard DC. A massive hypergiant star as the progenitor of the supernova SN 2005gl. Nature. 458(7240), 865–867 (2009).

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu Z, Gandhi CS, Rees DC. Structure of a tetrameric MscL in an expanded intermediate state. Nature. 461(7260), 120–124 (2009).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu L, Liu S, Chen X, et al. Switching molecular orientation of individual fullerene at room temperature. Sci. Rep. 3, 3062 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bruen AA, Forcinito MA. Cryptography, Information Theory, and Error-Correction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kuntz E. Hepatology Textbook and Atlas: History · Morphology Biochemistry · Diagnostics Clinic · Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Green TR. Linking Climate Change and Groundwater. In: Integrated Groundwater Management: Concepts, Approaches and Challenges. Jakeman AJ, Barreteau O, Hunt RJ, Rinaudo J-D, Ross A (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 97–141 (2016).

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 Medicinal Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew E. Take An Interactive Tour Of The International Space Station [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/take-interactive-tour-international-space-station-panoramic/.

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

Government Accountability Office. School Technology: Five School Districts’ Experiences in Financing Technology Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Skinner R. Artistiya: Popular music and personhood in postcolonial Bamako, Mali. (2009).

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

Koblin J. N.F.L. Games Come to CBS App. New York Times, B11 (2016).

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 Medicinal Chemistry
Abbreviation	Future Med. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1756-8919
ISSN (online)	1756-8927
Scope	Molecular Medicine Drug Discovery Pharmacology