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. Nestler EJ. Obituary: Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic (1937-2003). Nature. 2003;425:471.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Scher HD, Martin EE. Timing and climatic consequences of the opening of Drake Passage. Science. 2006;312:428–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Morgan JLW, Strumillo J, Zimmer J. Crystallographic snapshot of cellulose synthesis and membrane translocation. Nature. 2013;493:181–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhang Q, Fujino M, Iwasaki S, Hirano H, Cai S, Kitajima Y, et al. Generation and characterization of regulatory dendritic cells derived from murine induced pluripotent stem cells. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3979.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. McEvily AJ. Metal Failures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Giri PK, Goswami DK, Perumal A, editors. Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Dec 8-10, 2011, Guwahati, India. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Olbers D, Willebrand J, Eden C. Geostrophic and Quasi-Geostrophic Motions. In: Willebrand J, Eden C, editors. Ocean Dynamics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 137–57.

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. Andrews R. Ebola Nations Declare First Week With No New Cases [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ebola-nations-declare-first-week-no-new-cases0/

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. FCC: Unlicensed NII Devices in the 5 GHz Frequency Range. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Sep. Report No.: OGC-98-72.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Moeller RA. “No thanks, those are boy books”: A feminist cultural analysis of graphic novels as curricular materials [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2008.

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. Feeney K. A Focus on Cheese. New York Times. 2011 Jan 16;NJ10.

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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