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

Hittinger, C.T., 2012. Evolution. Endless rots most beautiful. Science 336, 1649–1650.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knutson, B.A., Hahn, S., 2011. Yeast Rrn7 and human TAF1B are TFIIB-related RNA polymerase I general transcription factors. Science 333, 1637–1640.

A journal article with 3 authors

Béarez, P., DeVries, T.J., Ortlieb, L., 2003. Comment on “Otolith delta18O record of mid-Holocene sea surface temperatures in Peru.” Science 299, 203; author reply 203.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kiss, I.Z., Rusin, C.G., Kori, H., Hudson, J.L., 2007. Engineering complex dynamical structures: sequential patterns and desynchronization. Science 316, 1886–1889.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, R.C., 2010. The Hedge Fund Book. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Alho, J.M., 2005. Statistical Demography and Forecasting, Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

O’Brien, E., Atkins, N., 2007. Validation and Reliability of Blood Pressure Monitors, in: White, W.B. (Ed.), Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics, Clinical Hypertension and Vascular Diseases. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 97–132.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. Conservationist To Fly Thousands Of Kilometers Alongside Migrating Swans On Epic Journey [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/daring-conservationist-fly-7000-kilometers-alongside-migrating-swans-epic-journey/ (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, 1993. Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. IV, No. 6 (No. 149845). 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

Salmons, I., 2017. Best Practices for Managing Burnout in Attorneys (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

(nyt), S.K., 2002. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Another Catholic Priest Barred. 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 (Hittinger, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hittinger, 2012; Knutson and Hahn, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Knutson and Hahn, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kiss et al., 2007)

About the journal

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