How to format your references using the Aging citation style

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

Mollenauer LF. Physics. Nonlinear optics in fibers. Science. 2003; 302: 996–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hibberd JM, Quick WP. Characteristics of C4 photosynthesis in stems and petioles of C3 flowering plants. Nature. 2002; 415: 451–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Esvelt KM, Carlson JC, Liu DR. A system for the continuous directed evolution of biomolecules. Nature. 2011; 472: 499–503.

A journal article with 14 or more authors

Xu X, Clark JM, Forster CA, Norell MA, Erickson GM, Eberth DA, Jia C, Zhao Q. A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China. Nature. 2006; 439: 715–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown T, Andrews GJ, Cummins S, Greenhough B, Lewis D, Power A. Health Geographies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Xu W, Xiao L, Li J, Zhang C, Zhu Z, editors. Computer Engineering and Technology: 20th CCF Conference, NCCET 2016, Xi’an, China, August 10-12, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Singapore: Springer; 2016. X, 232 p. 133 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Palermo G, Silvano C, Zaccaria V, Rigoni E, Kavka C, Turco A, Mariani G. Response Surface Modeling for Design Space Exploration of Embedded System. In: Silvano C, Fornaciari W, Villar E, editors. Multi-objective Design Space Exploration of Multiprocessor SoC Architectures: The MULTICUBE Approach. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. p. 75–92.

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.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Create A “Bat Ear” That Lets You “See” What Bats Hear [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/device-lets-you-see-what-bats-hear/

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. Highway Safety: Have Automobile Weight Reductions Increased Highway Fatalities? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Oct. Report No.: PEMD-92-1.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chlarson-Varner G. Falls among older adults 65 years and older [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Saslow L. Proposed Island School Budgets: A Story of Trade-Offs. New York Times. 2009; : LI5.

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
Abbreviation	Aging (Albany NY)
ISSN (online)	1945-4589
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