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

Baker AC (2001) Reef corals bleach to survive change. Nature 411:765–766

A journal article with 2 authors

Armakolas A, Klar AJS (2007) Left-right dynein motor implicated in selective chromatid segregation in mouse cells. Science 315:100–101

A journal article with 3 authors

Sakamaki T, Suzuki A, Ohtani E (2006) Stability of hydrous melt at the base of the Earth’s upper mantle. Nature 439:192–194

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kakazu E, Kondo Y, Kogure T, et al (2013) Plasma amino acids imbalance in cirrhotic patients disturbs the tricarboxylic acid cycle of dendritic cell. Sci Rep 3:3459

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goossens F (2015) How to Implement Market Models Using VBA. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Fan J, Ritov Y, Wu CFJ (2014) Selected Works of Peter J. Bickel. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Benamrane N, Nassane S (2007) Medical Image Segmentation by a Multi-Agent System Approach. In: Petta P, Müller JP, Klusch M, Georgeff M (eds) Multiagent System Technologies: 5th German Conference, MATES 2007, Leipzig, Germany, September 24-26, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–60

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

Andrew E (2014) New Material Could Be Both A Solar Cell And Display Screen. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-material-could-be-both-solar-cell-and-display-screen/. 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 (1988) Comparison of Amtrak Employee Injury Settlement Costs Under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act and State Workers’ Compensation Programs. 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

Copeland EJ (2010) A grant proposal for individuals with severe mental illness. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly D (1995) IN SHORT: FICTION. New York Times 720

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