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

McCabe H. Post-cold war needs “new forms of scientific linkage.” Nature. 404(6773), 8 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

Dragoi G, Tonegawa S. Preplay of future place cell sequences by hippocampal cellular assemblies. Nature. 469(7330), 397–401 (2011).

A journal article with 3 authors

Neves SR, Ram PT, Iyengar R. G protein pathways. Science. 296(5573), 1636–1639 (2002).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yancheva G, Nowaczyk NR, Mingram J, et al. Influence of the intertropical convergence zone on the East Asian monsoon. Nature. 445(7123), 74–77 (2007).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith CL. Basic Process Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Werner D, Newton WE, editors. Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang L, Tang H. Mode Selection for Cellular D2D Underlay. In: Device-to-Device Communications in Cellular Networks. Tang H (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 41–59 (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. New Butterfly-Inspired Material Could Help Prevent Counterfeiting [Internet]. IFLScience (2014). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-butterfly-wing-inspired-material-could-help-prevent-counterfeiting/.

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. College Savings: Information on State Tuition Prepayment 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

Rodgers R. Phylogenomic Analysis of Fundulidae Using RNA-Sequencing Data. (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

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times, C25 (2017).

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

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