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

Klar AJS. Fibonacci’s flowers. Nature. 417(6889), 595 (2002).

A journal article with 2 authors

Epshtein V, Nudler E. Cooperation between RNA polymerase molecules in transcription elongation. Science. 300(5620), 801–805 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

Lecavelier des Etangs A, Vidal-Madjar A, Désert J-M. The origin of hydrogen around HD 209458b. Nature. 456(7219), E1; discussion E1-2 (2008).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hjouj M, Lavee J, Last D, et al. The effect of blood flow on magnetic resonance imaging of non thermal irreversible electroporation. Sci. Rep. 3, 3088 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ralph D, Graham P. MMS: Technologies, Usage and Business Models. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ermentrout GB. Mathematical Foundations of Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Nechipurenko Y, Grokhovsky S, Gursky G, Nechipurenko D, Polozov R. DNA-Based Nanostructures: Changes of Mechanical Properties of DNA upon Ligand Binding. In: Nanomaterials for Application in Medicine and Biology. Giersig M, Khomutov GB (Eds.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 59–67 (2008).

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

Taub B. Like A Fish Out Of Water: Fish May Have Emerged Onto Land More Than 30 Times [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/like-fish-out-water-fish-may-have-emerged-onto-land-more-30-times/.

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. Surface Transportation: Availability of Intercity Bus Service Continues to Decline. 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

Minick V. Educators’ Beliefs About and Approaches to the Evaluation of Student Writing. (2010).

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

Kelly C. The Sailors Of Winter: In the Cold, Cold Sea. New York Times, 812 (1999).

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