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 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

Smaglik P. A delicate balance. Nature. 2004; 429: 323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stewart SA, Allen PJ. A 20-km-diameter multi-ringed impact structure in the North Sea. Nature. 2002; 418: 520–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharp DJ, Rogers GC, Scholey JM. Microtubule motors in mitosis. Nature. 2000; 407: 41–7.

A journal article with 14 or more authors

Bunker DE, Declerck F, Bradford JC, Colwell RK, Perfecto I, Phillips OL, Sankaran M, Naeem S. Species loss and aboveground carbon storage in a tropical forest. Science. 2005; 310: 1029–31.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

André É, Soulat R. The Inverse Method. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Alpay D, Vinnikov V, editors. Operator Theory, Systems Theory and Scattering Theory: Multidimensional Generalizations. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2005. XVI, 312 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Tasquier L, Venticinque S, Aversa R, Di Martino B. Agent Based Application Tools for Cloud Provisioning and Management. In: Yousif M, Schubert L, editors. Cloud Computing: Third International Conference, CloudComp 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 24-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. p. 32–42.

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

Fang J. New 600-Million-Year-Old Fossil is the World’s Oldest Sponge [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-600-million-year-old-fossil-worlds-oldest-sponge/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: A Testing Guide (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by AIMD-10.1.21). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Jun. Report No.: AIMD-10.1.21.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Okada H. Modulation of BACE1 by a novel sorting nexin in Alzheimer’s disease [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2008.

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

Gustines GG. The Inspiration for Betty of ‘Archie’ Comics. New York Times. 2015; : NJ10.

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
Scope