How to format your references using the Aging Clinical and Experimental Research citation style

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

Sarewitz D (2012) Blue-sky bias should be brought down to Earth. Nature 481:7

A journal article with 2 authors

Partridge L, Gems D (2007) Benchmarks for ageing studies. Nature 450:165–167

A journal article with 3 authors

Damasceno PF, Engel M, Glotzer SC (2012) Predictive self-assembly of polyhedra into complex structures. Science 337:453–457

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rutter GM, Crain JN, Guisinger NP, et al (2007) Scattering and interference in epitaxial graphene. Science 317:219–222

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sandén BI (2011) Design of Multithreaded Software. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gandon F, Sabou M, Sack H, et al (2015) The Semantic Web. Latest Advances and New Domains: 12th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2015, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 31 -- June 4, 2015. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Trinitis C, Küstner T, Weidendorfer J, Smajic J (2009) Sparse Matrix Operations on Multi-core Architectures. In: Malyshkin V (ed) Parallel Computing Technologies: 10th International Conference, PaCT 2009, Novosibirsk, Russia, August 31-September 4, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–48

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 Clinical and Experimental Research.

Blog post

Fang J (2016) Early Armored Dino From Texas Had An Unusually Good Sense Of Smell. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/early-armored-dino-texas-had-good-sense-smell/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1999) Commercial Maritime Industry: Updated Information on Federal Assessments. 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

Hsu Y-T (2017) Input and Uptake in High School EFL Students’ Multiple-Draft Writing Process: A Case Study of a Taiwanese High School EFL Classroom. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University

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

Leland J (2016) Black Enclave’s Newcomers: Mr. and Mrs. L.L.C. New York Times A1

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 Clinical and Experimental Research
Abbreviation	Aging Clin. Exp. Res.
ISSN (online)	1720-8319
Scope	Ageing Geriatrics and Gerontology