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

Wright, J. (2014). Genetics: Unravelling complexity. Nature, 508(7494), S6-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, D. J., & Whitehouse, I. (2012). Intrinsic coupling of lagging-strand synthesis to chromatin assembly. Nature, 483(7390), 434–438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sazonov, S. Y., Lutovinov, A. A., & Sunyaev, R. A. (2004). An apparently normal gamma-ray burst with an unusually low luminosity. Nature, 430(7000), 646–648.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shao, Y., Zhang, L., Hao, X., Wu, Y., Dai, Y., Tian, Y., & Huo, Q. (2014). Large area stress distribution in crystalline materials calculated from lattice deformation identified by electron backscatter diffraction. Scientific reports, 4, 5934.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Horton, I. (2012). Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++® 2012. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Seki, S. (2016). Skyrmions in Magnetic Materials. (M. Mochizuki, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lawson, W. B., & Lawson, A. (2013). Disparities in Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment Among African Americans: Implications for the Correctional Systems. In B. Sanders, Y. F. Thomas, & B. Griffin Deeds (Eds.), Crime, HIV and Health: Intersections of Criminal Justice and Public Health Concerns (pp. 81–91). Dordrecht: 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 Ageing International.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, October 10). Tick-Induced Meat Allergy Reportedly On The Rise. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tick-induced-meat-allergy-reportedly-on-the-rise/. 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. (2001). A Practical Guide to Federal Enterprise Architecture, Version 1.0 (Extended by GAO-03-584G) (No. P00201). 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

Davis, M. (2015). Opprobrious Identities: The Enslaving Effect of Black Respectability on Queer Black Men (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Traub, J. (2016, November 2). Make Poland Great Again. New York Times, p. MM43.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wright 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Smith and Whitehouse 2012; Wright 2014).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Whitehouse 2012)
Three or more authors: (Shao 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)