How to format your references using the Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra. 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

Check E. Alternative therapies leave US commission divided. Nature. 2002 Mar;416(6879):355.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gao Y, Bando Y. Carbon nanothermometer containing gallium. Nature. 2002 Feb;415(6872):599.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maier T, Leibundgut M, Ban N. The crystal structure of a mammalian fatty acid synthase. Science. 2008 Sep;321(5894):1315–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Real R, Peter M, Trabalza A, Khan S, Smith MA, Dopp J, et al. In vivo modeling of human neuron dynamics and Down syndrome. Science. 2018 Nov;362(6416).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allsopp W. Advanced Penetration Testing. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Reinhard T, Larkin DFP, editors. Cornea and External Eye Disease. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Syme D, Granicz A, Cisternino A. Understanding Types in Functional Programming. In: Granicz A, Cisternino A, editors. Expert F# 3.0. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2012; pp 81–109.

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 Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra.

Blog post

Andrew E. Dads Get Postnatal Depression Too [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dads-get-postnatal-depression-too/

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. Women in STEM Research: Federal Agencies Differ in the Data They Collect on Grant Applicants. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Best ML. Assistant Principals and Reform: A Socialization Paradox? 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

Crow K. Pool, Gym or a Bit of Both? Neighbors Mull the Options. New York Times. 2000 Dec;147.

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	Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra
Abbreviation	Dement. Geriatr. Cogn. Dis. Extra
ISSN (online)	1664-5464
Scope