How to format your references using the Advances in Life Course Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Life Course Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Lawler, A. (2011). Archaeology. Preserving history, one hill at a time. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6063), 1623.

A journal article with 2 authors

Accardi, A., & Miller, C. (2004). Secondary active transport mediated by a prokaryotic homologue of ClC Cl- channels. Nature, 427(6977), 803–807.

A journal article with 3 authors

McNally, A., Prier, C. K., & MacMillan, D. W. C. (2011). Discovery of an α-amino C-H arylation reaction using the strategy of accelerated serendipity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6059), 1114–1117.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Adams, W. M., Aveling, R., Brockington, D., Dickson, B., Elliott, J., Hutton, J., Roe, D., Vira, B., & Wolmer, W. (2004). Biodiversity conservation and the eradication of poverty. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5699), 1146–1149.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Modarres, M., Amiri, M., & Jackson, C. (2017). Probabilistic Physics of Failure Approach to Reliability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Felser, C., & Fecher, G. H. (Eds.). (2013). Spintronics: From Materials to Devices. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Montagnini, F. (2006). Homegardens of Mesoamerica: Biodiversity, food security, and nutrient management. In B. M. Kumar & P. K. R. Nair (Eds.), Tropical Homegardens: A Time-Tested Example of Sustainable Agroforestry (pp. 61–84). Springer Netherlands.

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 Advances in Life Course Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 17). New Rules Say Unvaccinated Australian Kids Can’t Attend Kindergarten. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/no-childcare-or-kindergarten-unvaccinated-australian-kids/

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. (2016). Information Technology Reform: Agencies Need to Increase Their Use of Incremental Development Practices (GAO-16-469). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tan, S. W. (2013). A pedagogical approach to selected études from Étude en douze exercices, S.136 and Études d ’exécution transcendante, S.139 by Franz Liszt [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Vlasic, B. (2015, February 4). Despite Recalls, G.M. Pays Workers Big Bonus. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Accardi & Miller, 2004; Lawler, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Accardi & Miller, 2004)
Three authors: (McNally et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Adams et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Life Course Research
Abbreviation	Adv. Life Course Res.
ISSN (print)	1040-2608
Scope	Life-span and Life-course Studies