How to format your references using the Biogerontology citation style

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

Tyran J-R (2007) Economics. Money illusion and the market. Science 317:1042–1043

A journal article with 2 authors

Sivanand S, Wellen KE (2015) Molecular biology: Salvaging the genome. Nature 524:40–41

A journal article with 3 authors

Piscitelli CL, Krishnamurthy H, Gouaux E (2010) Neurotransmitter/sodium symporter orthologue LeuT has a single high-affinity substrate site. Nature 468:1129–1132

A journal article with 5 or more authors

You L-R, Lin F-J, Lee CT, et al (2005) Suppression of Notch signalling by the COUP-TFII transcription factor regulates vein identity. Nature 435:98–104

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hewitt A (2016) Construction Claims & Responses. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Pandurangan G, Anil Kumar VS, Ming G, et al (eds) (2010) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications: 5th International Conference, WASA 2010, Beijing, China, August 15-17, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Jackman AL, Jansen G, Ng M (2011) Folate Receptor Targeted Thymidylate Synthase Inhibitors. In: Jackman AL, Leamon CP (eds) Targeted Drug Strategies for Cancer and Inflammation. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 93–117

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 Biogerontology.

Blog post

Andrews R (2015) Study Finds Pork And Human DNA In Vegetarian Hot Dogs. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/human-dna-found-american-hot-dogs-among-other-strange-things/. 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 (1998) Air Traffic Control: FAA Plans to Replace Its Host Computer System Because Future Availability Cannot Be Assured. 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

Robertson-Tessi M (2010) Mathematical models of tumor growth and therapy. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

(nyt) SK (2002) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Another Step Toward Private Farmland. New York Times A10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tyran 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Tyran 2007; Sivanand and Wellen 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sivanand and Wellen 2015)
Three or more authors: (You et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biogerontology
Abbreviation	Biogerontology
ISSN (print)	1389-5729
ISSN (online)	1573-6768
Scope	Ageing Geriatrics and Gerontology Gerontology