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

Turnpenny L. Journal club. A stem-cell researcher considers an accusation of dullness. Nature. 2009 May;459(7244):143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goncharenko I, Loubeyre P. Neutron and X-ray diffraction study of the broken symmetry phase transition in solid deuterium. Nature. 2005 Jun;435(7046):1206–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sia GM, Clem RL, Huganir RL. The human language-associated gene SRPX2 regulates synapse formation and vocalization in mice. Science. 2013 Nov;342(6161):987–91.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Feldberg K, Schneider H, Stadler T, Schäfer-Verwimp A, Schmidt AR, Heinrichs J. Epiphytic leafy liverworts diversified in angiosperm-dominated forests. Sci Rep. 2014 Aug;4:5974.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Petrucelli JR. Detecting Fraud in Organizations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Shimjith SR. Modeling and Control of a Large Nuclear Reactor: A Three-Time-Scale Approach. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Kendall T, Wolfram W. Engagement Through Data Management and Preservation: The North Carolina Language and Life Project and the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project. In: Corrigan KP, Mearns A, editors. Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 3: Databases for Public Engagement. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016; pp 133–57.

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 Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra.

Blog post

Luntz S. World’s Largest Wasp Nest Found In Tasmania [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Apr

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. The Manager, the Government, and the Accounting Profession. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1968.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dickens JR. The experience of recovery from alcohol/drugs (AOD). 2011

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

Barron J. Le Train Bleu Is Departing Bloomingdale’s. A Rail Buff Sees It Off. New York Times. 2016 Dec;A19.

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