How to format your references using the Aging Health citation style

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

O’Neill LAJ. Immunology. How frustration leads to inflammation. Science. 320(5876), 619–620 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

Lindvall O, Kokaia Z. Stem cells for the treatment of neurological disorders. Nature. 441(7097), 1094–1096 (2006).

A journal article with 3 authors

Lopinski GP, Wayner DD, Wolkow RA. Self-directed growth of molecular nanostructures on silicon. Nature. 406(6791), 48–51 (2000).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Currie MJ, Mapel JK, Heidel TD, Goffri S, Baldo MA. High-efficiency organic solar concentrators for photovoltaics. Science. 321(5886), 226–228 (2008).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jacquenet C, Bourdon G, Boucadair M. Service Automation and Dynamic Provisioning Techniques in IP/MPLS Environments. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Presutti V, Blomqvist E, Troncy R, Sack H, Papadakis I, Tordai A, editors. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Gatrell JD, Bierly GD, Jensen RR. Data and Methods in Spatial Science. In: Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science: Second Edition. Bierly GD, Jensen RR (Eds.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 35–44 (2012).

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 Health.

Blog post

Taub B. The Brains Of Amputees Remember Their Lost Limbs For Decades [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brains-amputees-remember-their-lost-limbs-decades/.

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. Commercial Space Transportation: Development of the Commercial Space Launch Industry Presents Safety Oversight Challenges for FAA and Raises Issues Affecting Federal Roles. 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

Sutton LM. Factors Affecting Quality Discourse and Knowledge Construction in an Online University Course. (2012).

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

Yablonsky L. Art and Action. New York Times, M242 (2010).

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 Health
Abbreviation	Aging health
ISSN (print)	1745-509X
ISSN (online)	1745-5103
Scope	General Medicine Geriatrics and Gerontology