How to format your references using the AGE citation style

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

Sommeria J (2001) Unweaving the whirls. Nature 413:575

A journal article with 2 authors

DeSimone DW, Horwitz AR (2014) Cell Biology. Many modes of motility. Science 345:1002–1003

A journal article with 3 authors

Nuttall WJ, Clarke RH, Glowacki BA (2012) Resources: Stop squandering helium. Nature 485:573–575

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Harmon LJ, Matthews B, Des Roches S, et al (2009) Evolutionary diversification in stickleback affects ecosystem functioning. Nature 458:1167–1170

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Storey IC, Allan A (2008) A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Gupta SK (ed) (2012) Technological Innovations in Major World Oil Crops, Volume 2: Perspectives. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Manfrino RB, Ortega JAG, Delgado RV (2015) Complex Numbers. In: Gómez Ortega JA, Valdez Delgado R (eds) Topics in Algebra and Analysis: Preparing for the Mathematical Olympiad. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 75–88

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 AGE.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) New Research Shows How Pleasure And Positivity Mobilize The Body’s Immune System. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-research-shows-how-pleasure-and-positivity-mobilize-the-bodys-immune-system/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1970) Improved Accounting Control Over Equipment at the Kennedy Space Center. 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

Shirley A (2012) Connecting foster children with their siblings within a summer camp setting: A grant proposal. 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

Greenhouse L (2007) Court to Weigh Disparities in Cocaine Laws. New York Times A15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sommeria 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Sommeria 2001; DeSimone and Horwitz 2014).

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

Two authors: (DeSimone and Horwitz 2014)
Three or more authors: (Harmon et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	AGE
Abbreviation	Age (Dordr.)
ISSN (print)	0161-9152
ISSN (online)	1574-4647
Scope	Ageing General Medicine Geriatrics and Gerontology