How to format your references using the Current Geriatrics Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Geriatrics Reports. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
1. McCaffrey R. Geophysics. The next great earthquake. Science. 2007;315:1675–6.
A journal article with 2 authors
1. Genda H, Abe Y. Enhanced atmospheric loss on protoplanets at the giant impact phase in the presence of oceans. Nature. 2005;433:842–4.
A journal article with 3 authors
1. Tenenbaum JB, de Silva V, Langford JC. A global geometric framework for nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Science. 2000;290:2319–23.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
1. Ferrón SR, Charalambous M, Radford E, McEwen K, Wildner H, Hind E, et al. Postnatal loss of Dlk1 imprinting in stem cells and niche astrocytes regulates neurogenesis. Nature. 2011;475:381–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. Rezg N, Dellagi S, Khatab A. Joint Optimization of Maintenance and Production Policies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.
An edited book
1. Derksen H. Computational Invariant Theory. 2nd ed. 2015. Kemper G, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
1. Inozemtseva L, Holmes R, Walker RJ. Recommendation Systems in-the-Small. In: Robillard MP, Maalej W, Walker RJ, Zimmermann T, editors. Recommendation Systems in Software Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 77–92.

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 Current Geriatrics Reports.

Blog post
1. Andrew E. HIV Reappears In Second Baby Thought To Be Cured [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hiv-reappears-second-baby-thought-be-cured/

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
1. Government Accountability Office. Child Labor: Information on Federal Enforcement Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Jun. Report No.: HRD-92-127FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1. Cervantes I. Flexural retrofitting of reinforced concrete structures using Green Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymer plates [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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
1. Hollander S. Johns Hopkins Goalie Sticks to Daring Style. New York Times. 2000 May 27;D8.

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 titleCurrent Geriatrics Reports
AbbreviationCurr. Geriatr. Rep.
ISSN (online)2196-7865
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