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

Baughman, R. H. (2005). Materials science. Playing nature’s game with artificial muscles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5718), 63–65.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerstner, W., & Naud, R. (2009). Neuroscience. How good are neuron models? Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5951), 379–380.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kareiva, P., Chang, A., & Marvier, M. (2008). Environmental economics. Development and conservation goals in World Bank projects. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5896), 1638–1639.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Allan, R. S., Smith, C. M., Belz, G. T., van Lint, A. L., Wakim, L. M., Heath, W. R., & Carbone, F. R. (2003). Epidermal viral immunity induced by CD8alpha+ dendritic cells but not by Langerhans cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5641), 1925–1928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carvalho, M. C. (2016). Practical Laboratory Automation. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Hernández-Leo, D., Ley, T., Klamma, R., & Harrer, A. (Eds.). (2013). Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact: 8th European Conference, on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2013, Paphos, Cyprus, September 17-21, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 8095). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zacher, J. (2015). Synovectomy of Rheumatoid Joints. In W. U. Kampen & M. Fischer (Eds.), Local Treatment of Inflammatory Joint Diseases: Benefits and Risks (pp. 71–78). 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 Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, October 25). These Colorful Maps Show That River Basins Are Surprisingly Interesting. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1974). Charges Made by the National Federation of the Blind Against the National Accreditation Council for Agencies Serving the Blind and Visually Handicapped (B-176886). 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

Hrivnak, G. A. (2009). Extending a model of leader -member exchange development: Individual and dyadic effects of personality, similarity and liking [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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, S. R. (2013, July 24). Bonjour, America! New York Times, A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baughman, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Baughman, 2005; Gerstner & Naud, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gerstner & Naud, 2009)
Three authors: (Kareiva et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Allan et al., 2003)

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)