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

Bass, J. (2012). Circadian topology of metabolism. Nature, 491(7424), 348–356.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reck, B. K., & Graedel, T. E. (2012). Challenges in metal recycling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6095), 690–695.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kikushima, K., Kita, S., & Higuchi, H. (2013). A non-invasive imaging for the in vivo tracking of high-speed vesicle transport in mouse neutrophils. Scientific reports, 3, 1913.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Reichow, M. K., Saunders, A. D., White, R. V., Pringle, M. S., Al’Mukhamedov, A. I., Medvedev, A. I., & Kirda, N. P. (2002). 40Ar/39Ar dates from the West Siberian Basin: Siberian flood basalt province doubled. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5574), 1846–1849.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bays, D. H. (2011). A New History of Christianity in China. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Macintosh, A., Ellis, R., & Allen, T. (Eds.). (2005). Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XII: Proceedings of AI-2004, the Twenty-fourth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chabin, J., Halfeld Ferrari, M., Musicante, M. A., & Réty, P. (2013). Conservative Type Extensions for XML Data. In A. Hameurlain, J. Küng, & R. Wagner (Eds.), Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems IX (pp. 65–94). 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. (2015, October 30). Why Was A Child’s “5+5+5=15” Answer Marked As Incorrect? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/teacher-marks-child-s-55515-answer-incorrect/. 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. (1987). Information Management: Leadership Needed in Managing Federal Telecommunications (No. IMTEC-87-9). 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

Bai, S. (2008). Identification and Characterization of Senescence-Associated Proteins in Petunia Corollas (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Lane, M. M. (2016, January 23). In Forbidden Art, Beauty and Brutality. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bass 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bass 2012; Reck and Graedel 2012).

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

Two authors: (Reck and Graedel 2012)
Three or more authors: (Reichow et al. 2002)

About the journal

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

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