How to format your references using the Future Rare Diseases citation style

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

Bussières P. Estimating the number and size of phloem sieve plate pores using longitudinal views and geometric reconstruction. Sci. Rep. 4, 4929 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Endy D, Brent R. Modelling cellular behaviour. Nature 409(6818), 391–395 (2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

Padture NP, Gell M, Jordan EH. Thermal barrier coatings for gas-turbine engine applications. Science 296(5566), 280–284 (2002).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Agliari E, Biselli E, De Ninno A et al. Cancer-driven dynamics of immune cells in a microfluidic environment. Sci. Rep. 4, 6639 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nations S. The Complete Book of Option Spreads and Combinations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014).

An edited book

Kluve J. Active Labor Market Policies in Europe: Performance and Perspectives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007).

A chapter in an edited book

McGoldrick PJ, Keeling KA, Stanbridge A. Motivating Pro-Environmental Behaviors: Utility of the Decisional Balance Scale, Self-Efficacy and Reactance. In: Proceedings of the 2009 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Robinson L Jr (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 5–5 (2015).

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 Rare Diseases.

Blog post

Carpineti C. ‘What’s ACTUALLY Going On In This Viral Video Of A Newborn Baby “Walking”?’ (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/whats-actually-going-on-in-this-viral-video-of-a-newborn-baby-walking/.

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. Federal Student Loans: Challenges in Estimating Federal Subsidy Costs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2005).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shan J. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, (2014).

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

Lee L. Adjusting a Waistline for a Wedding, but at What Cost?, (2012).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Future Rare Diseases
ISSN (online)	2399-5262
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