How to format your references using the Ageing Research Reviews citation style

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

Grossniklaus, U., 2009. Plant science. Paternal patterning cue. Science 323, 1439–1440.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berlin, S., Ellegren, H., 2001. Evolutionary genetics. Clonal inheritance of avian mitochondrial DNA. Nature 413, 37–38.

A journal article with 3 authors

McKemy, D.D., Neuhausser, W.M., Julius, D., 2002. Identification of a cold receptor reveals a general role for TRP channels in thermosensation. Nature 416, 52–58.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Maksymovych, P., Sorescu, D.C., Jordan, K.D., Yates, J.T., Jr, 2008. Collective reactivity of molecular chains self-assembled on a surface. Science 322, 1664–1667.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond, B., 2010. Legal Aspects of Occupational Therapy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Öchsner, A., Murch, G.E. (Eds.), 2011. Heat Transfer in Multi-Phase Materials, Advanced Structured Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bodlaender, H.L., Bonsma, P., Lokshtanov, D., 2013. The Fine Details of Fast Dynamic Programming over Tree Decompositions, in: Gutin, G., Szeider, S. (Eds.), Parameterized and Exact Computation: 8th International Symposium, IPEC 2013, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 4-6, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 41–53.

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 Research Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Prescription Drugs Could Influence Moral Decisions [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/some-prescription-drugs-may-influence-moral-decisions/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1989. Trainer Aircraft: Plans to Replace the Existing Fleet (No. NSIAD-89-94). 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

Gittens, B.E., 2009. Perceptions of the applicability of transformational leadership behavior to the leader role of academic department chairs: A study of selected universities in Virginia (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2002. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Weapons Found Near Vnukovo Airport. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grossniklaus, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Berlin and Ellegren, 2001; Grossniklaus, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Berlin and Ellegren, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Maksymovych et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ageing Research Reviews
Abbreviation	Ageing Res. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1568-1637
Scope	Ageing Biochemistry Biotechnology Molecular Biology Neurology