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

Nitzan, A., 2007. Chemistry. Molecules take the heat. Science 317, 759–760.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cox, B., Beard, P., 2015. Imaging techniques: Super-resolution ultrasound. Nature 527, 451–452.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stott, P.A., Stone, D.A., Allen, M.R., 2004. Human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003. Nature 432, 610–614.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu, Z.-H., Shi, Y., Tibbetts, R.S., Miyamoto, S., 2006. Molecular linkage between the kinase ATM and NF-kappaB signaling in response to genotoxic stimuli. Science 311, 1141–1146.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khan, M.M., Islam, M.R., 2016. Zero Waste Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Das, S., 2015. Economic Growth and Development: A Dynamic Dual Economy Approach, Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Huiqin, Z., Pingjian, G., Jun, M., 2012. Research on the Mode of Computer-Aided Translation Teaching Process, in: Wu, Y. (Ed.), Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering: Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 25–32.

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. Whale Nerves Can Stretch To Double Original Size [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/whales-have-elastic-nerves/ (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, 1981. Legislative and Regulatory Actions Needed To Deal With a Changing Domestic Telecommunications Industry (No. CED-81-136). 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

E, C.-C., 2014. The syntax of comparative correlatives in Mandarin Chinese (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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 (Nitzan, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Cox and Beard, 2015; Nitzan, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Cox and Beard, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al., 2006)

About the journal

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