How to format your references using the Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 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

King, D. (2010). Spending review leaves research in the lurch. Nature, 467(7319), 1007.

A journal article with 2 authors

le Noble, F., & le Noble, J. (2014). Bone biology: Vessels of rejuvenation. Nature, 507(7492), 313–314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tamisiea, M. E., Mitrovica, J. X., & Davis, J. L. (2007). GRACE gravity data constrain ancient ice geometries and continental dynamics over Laurentia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5826), 881–883.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Shapiro, N. M., Campillo, M., Stehly, L., & Ritzwoller, M. H. (2005). High-resolution surface-wave tomography from ambient seismic noise. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5715), 1615–1618.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bobrow, J., Kohn, E., Mondragon-Gilmore, J., & Eggenschwiler, J. (2009). CliffsNotes® Praxis I®: PPST®. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Cardaliaguet, P., & Cressman, R. (Eds.). (2013). Advances in Dynamic Games: Theory, Applications, and Numerical Methods for Differential and Stochastic Games (Vol. 12). Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Davis, R. L., & Simmons, K. (2009). Database Mirroring Setup. In K. Simmons (Ed.), Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring (pp. 31–52). Apress.

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 Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, September 2). How To Tell If Your Boss Is A Psychopath – And What To Do About It. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-to-tell-if-your-boss-is-a-psychopath-and-what-to-do-about-it/

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. (1997). Head Start: Research Provides Little Information on Impact of Current Program (HEHS-97-59). 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

Fails, J. A. (2009). Mobile collaboration for young children: Reading and creating stories [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

Chapman, M. M. (2017, April 13). Online Upstarts Seek to Shake Up Used-Car Buying. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (King, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (King, 2010; le Noble & le Noble, 2014).

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

Two authors: (le Noble & le Noble, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Shapiro et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
Abbreviation	Arch. Gerontol. Geriatr.
ISSN (print)	0167-4943
Scope	Ageing Geriatrics and Gerontology Gerontology Health(social science)