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

Makalowski W (2003) Genomics. Not junk after all. Science 300:1246–1247

A journal article with 2 authors

Margueron R, Reinberg D (2011) The Polycomb complex PRC2 and its mark in life. Nature 469:343–349

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson KG, Jackson JBC, Budd AF (2008) Caribbean reef development was independent of coral diversity over 28 million years. Science 319:1521–1523

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Vendruscolo M, Paci E, Dobson CM, Karplus M (2001) Three key residues form a critical contact network in a protein folding transition state. Nature 409:641–645

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Al-Shuhail AA, Al-Dossary SA, Mousa WA (2017) Seismic Data Interpretation using Digital Image Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ohtsu M, Yatsui T (2015) Progress in Nanophotonics 3. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Graves I, Procter A, Harrison WL, et al (2015) Hardware Synthesis from Functional Embedded Domain-Specific Languages: A Case Study in Regular Expression Compilation. In: Sano K, Soudris D, Hübner M, Diniz PC (eds) Applied Reconfigurable Computing: 11th International Symposium, ARC 2015, Bochum, Germany, April 13-17, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 41–52

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

Davis J (2015) Researchers Link Humans Brains Allowing One To Guess What The Other Is Thinking. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-link-humans-brains-allowing-one-guess-what-other-thinking/. 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 (2011) Financial Literacy: The Federal Government’s Role in Empowering Americans to Make Sound Financial Choices. 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

Shellhouse K (2017) The Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary Deposit in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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 (2006) Long Island Weekend: A 48-Hour Treadmill of Activity -- Saturday. New York Times 14LI12

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

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