How to format your references using the Ageing International citation style

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

Gill, P. (2000). Optical clocks coming of age. Nature, 407(6804), 579–580.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ammerman, A. J., & McClennen, C. E. (2000). URBAN ECOLOGY: Saving Venice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5483), 1301–1302.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vander Heiden, M. G., Cantley, L. C., & Thompson, C. B. (2009). Understanding the Warburg effect: the metabolic requirements of cell proliferation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5930), 1029–1033.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bülow, M. H., Bülow, T. R., Hoch, M., Pankratz, M. J., & Jünger, M. A. (2014). Src tyrosine kinase signaling antagonizes nuclear localization of FOXO and inhibits its transcription factor activity. Scientific reports, 4, 4048.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meschede, D. (2017). Optics, Light, and Lasers. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Moritz, E. F., & Haake, S. (Eds.). (2006). The Engineering of Sport 6: Volume 1: Developments for Sports. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

de Oliveira, M. R., Pacheco, A., Pascoal, C., Valadas, R., & Salvador, P. (2009). On the Dependencies between Internet Flow Characteristics. In R. Valadas & P. Salvador (Eds.), Traffic Management and Traffic Engineering for the Future Internet: First Euro-NF Workshop, FITraMEn 2008, Porto, Portugal, December 11-12, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 68–80). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Ageing International.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, August 1). Contest Gives You The Chance To 3D Print Your Own Design On The International Space Station. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/contest-gives-you-the-chance-to-3d-print-your-own-design-on-the-international-space-station/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1994). Post-FTS 2000 Strategy (No. AIMD-95-62R). Washington, DC: 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

Arendse, E. M. (2014). A textual Caribbean: Voices of the multitude in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Crow, K. (2001, October 21). Slippers, Pudding and a Martini Glass For Auden, in This Age of Anxiety. New York Times, p. 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gill 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Ammerman and McClennen 2000; Gill 2000).

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

Two authors: (Ammerman and McClennen 2000)
Three or more authors: (Bülow et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ageing International
Abbreviation	Ageing Int.
ISSN (print)	0163-5158
ISSN (online)	1936-606X
Scope	Health(social science)