How to format your references using the Aging and Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aging and Disease. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

Bejan A (2014). Maxwell’s demons everywhere: evolving design as the arrow of time. Sci Rep, 4:4017.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gehrels N, Mészáros P (2012). Gamma-ray bursts. Science, 337:932–936.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Vaccari NE, Edgecombe GD, Escudero C (2004). Cambrian origins and affinities of an enigmatic fossil group of arthropods. Nature, 430:554–557.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Jackson M, Song W, Liu MY, Jin L, Dykes-Hoberg M, Lin CI, et al. (2001). Modulation of the neuronal glutamate transporter EAAT4 by two interacting proteins. Nature, 410:89–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Singer B, Fedorinchik G Investment Leadership and Portfolio Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Alconada Magliano TM, Chulze SN, editors Fusarium Head Blight in Latin America. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Brunel E, Delling D, Gemsa A, Wagner D (2010). Space-Efficient SHARC-Routing. In: Festa P, editor Experimental Algorithms: 9th International Symposium, SEA 2010, Ischia Island, Naples, Italy, May 20-22, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 47–58.

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 Aging and Disease.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E (2014). Idiot Jumps On Top Of Tiger Shark. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/idiot-jumps-top-tiger-shark/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office (2015). Federal Research: DOE Is Addressing Invention Disclosure and Other Challenges but Needs a Plan to Guide Data Management Improvements. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Oates PE (2009). Leadership transactions impacting transformation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix.

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

[1]

(nyt) SK (2001). World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: President Signs Land Reform Law. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Aging and Disease
ISSN (online)	2152-5250
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