How to format your references using the Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition citation style

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

Butterworth, J. (2012). Particle physics: Beyond the Higgs. Nature, 488(7413), 581–582.

A journal article with 2 authors

Srinivasan, K., & Painter, O. (2007). Linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of a strongly coupled microdisk-quantum dot system. Nature, 450(7171), 862–865.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jin, F.-F., Boucharel, J., & Lin, I.-I. (2014). Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones intensified by El Niño delivery of subsurface ocean heat. Nature, 516(7529), 82–85.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Paskiewicz, D. M., Savage, D. E., Holt, M. V., Evans, P. G., & Lagally, M. G. (2014). Nanomembrane-based materials for Group IV semiconductor quantum electronics. Scientific Reports, 4, 4218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prager, F. H., & Rosteck, H. (2006). Polyurethane and Fire. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Pasman, H. J., & Kirillov, I. A. (Eds.). (2008). Resilience of Cities to Terrorist and other Threats: Learning from 9/11 and further Research Issues. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Altmann, S. (2014). All Done by Mirrors: Symmetries, Quaternions, Spinors, and Clifford Algebras. In R. Lupacchini & A. Angelini (Eds.), The Art of Science: From Perspective Drawing to Quantum Randomness (pp. 101–130). Springer International Publishing.

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, Neuropsychology, and Cognition.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 10). Researchers Use Gene Editing To Mimic A Mutation That Confers HIV Resistance In The Lab. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-use-gene-editing-mimic-mutation-confers-hiv-resistance-lab/

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. (2000). Education for Disadvantaged Children: Research Purpose and Design Features Affect Conclusions Drawn From Key Studies (HEHS-00-168). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Paustian, M. E. (2010). Evaluating competition between the non-native slug Arion subfuscus and the native slug Philomycus carolinianus [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Billard, M. (2010, August 26). Scouting Report. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Butterworth, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Butterworth, 2012; Srinivasan & Painter, 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Srinivasan & Painter, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Paskiewicz et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition
Abbreviation	Neuropsychol. Dev. Cogn. B Aging Neuropsychol. Cogn.
ISSN (print)	1382-5585
ISSN (online)	1744-4128
Scope	Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychiatry and Mental health Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology