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

Robinson, C. V. (2011). John Fenn (1917-2010). Nature, 469(7330), 300.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aide, T. M., & Grau, H. R. (2004). Ecology. Globalization, migration, and Latin American ecosystems. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5692), 1915–1916.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeng, B., Gao, Y., & Bartoli, F. J. (2013). Ultrathin nanostructured metals for highly transmissive plasmonic subtractive color filters. Scientific Reports, 3, 2840.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Hughes, L., McIntyre, S., Lindenmayer, D. B., Parmesan, C., Possingham, H. P., & Thomas, C. D. (2008). Ecology. Assisted colonization and rapid climate change. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5887), 345–346.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blackford, R., & Schüklenk, U. (2013). 50 Great Myths about Atheism. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Crowe, A. R., & Cuenca, A. (Eds.). (2016). Rethinking Social Studies Teacher Education in the Twenty-First Century (1st ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Orsi, F. (2015). HCC. In E. Van Cutsem, T. J. Vogl, F. Orsi, & A. Sobrero (Eds.), Locoregional Tumor Therapy (pp. 31–54). Springer.

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

Luntz, S. (2016, July 12). New Dwarf Planet Discovered At The Edge Of The Solar System. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-dwarf-planet-discovered-at-the-edge-of-the-solar-system/

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: Federal Agencies Need to Address Aging Legacy Systems (GAO-16-696T). 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

Hambarsoomian, H. (2017). Classification of Placental Chorionic Surface Vasculature Network Features Using Machine Learning Techniques [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

Yablonsky, L. (2007, August 26). Eye Spy. New York Times, 6228.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Aide & Grau, 2004; Robinson, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Aide & Grau, 2004)
Three authors: (Zeng et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Hoegh-Guldberg et al., 2008)

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