How to format your references using the European Journal of Ageing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Ageing. 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

Russell TP (2001) Polymer dynamics. Chance encounters. Science 293:446–447

A journal article with 2 authors

Matsuda N, Tanaka K (2015) Cell biology: Tagged tags engage disposal. Nature 524:294–295

A journal article with 3 authors

Lorenz K, Lohse MJ, Quitterer U (2003) Protein kinase C switches the Raf kinase inhibitor from Raf-1 to GRK-2. Nature 426:574–579

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhu Z, Zheng T, Homer RJ, et al (2004) Acidic mammalian chitinase in asthmatic Th2 inflammation and IL-13 pathway activation. Science 304:1678–1682

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ambachtsheer KP (2016) The Future of Pension Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Karasulu B (2013) Performance Evaluation Software: Moving Object Detection and Tracking in Videos. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Chantada GL, Leal-Leal C, Stefan DC, et al (2015) Retinoblastoma: International Perspective. In: Singh AD, Murphree AL, Damato BE (eds) Clinical Ophthalmic Oncology: Retinoblastoma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 51–60

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 European Journal of Ageing.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Watch A 24/7 Live Steam Of A Bear Haven In Alaska. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-a-247-live-steam-of-a-bear-haven-in-alaska-/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2011) Department of Energy: Advanced Technology Vehicle Loan Program Needs Enhanced Oversight and Performance Measures. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tomlinson KL (2008) Working with the imaginal: Art-making and dialogue with figures of soul. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Vecsey G (2010) U.S. Shares the Blame for Feeling Cheated. New York Times D2

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Russell 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Russell 2001; Matsuda and Tanaka 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Matsuda and Tanaka 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhu et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Ageing
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Ageing
ISSN (print)	1613-9372
ISSN (online)	1613-9380
Scope	Geriatrics and Gerontology Health(social science)