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

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

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

1. Jokipii JR. Planetary science. A local wiggle in the turbulent interstellar magnetic field. Science. 2007;316:839–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Häkkinen S, Rhines PB. Decline of subpolar North Atlantic circulation during the 1990s. Science. 2004;304:555–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ide S, Baltay A, Beroza GC. Shallow dynamic overshoot and energetic deep rupture in the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. Science. 2011;332:1426–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lang SB, Tofail SAM, Kholkin AL, Wojtaś M, Gregor M, Gandhi AA, et al. Ferroelectric polarization in nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite thin films on silicon. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2215.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sedlacek HH, Sapienza AM, Eid V. Ways to Successful Strategies in Drug Research and Development. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2008.

An edited book

1. North K, Varvakis G, editors. Competitive Strategies for Small and Medium Enterprises: Increasing Crisis Resilience, Agility and Innovation in Turbulent Times. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lee WB, Shek V, Cheung B. Auditing and Mapping the Knowledge Assets of Business Processes – An Empirical Study. In: Zhang Z, Siekmann J, editors. Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: Second International Conference, KSEM 2007, Melbourne, Australia, November 28-30, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 11–6.

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 Translational Geriatrics and Gerontology Reports.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Male Spiders Perform Oral Sex On Females. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. High Risk Series: NASA Contract Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Dec. Report No.: HR-93-11.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Garcia R. The California State University education doctorate: Public policy for the public good [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Mishan L. The Taste of Darkness. New York Times. 2017 Sep 21;M2166.

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 title	Current Translational Geriatrics and Gerontology Reports
ISSN (online)	2162-4941
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