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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
DiVincenzo DP (2011) Physics. Toward control of large-scale quantum computing. Science 334:50–51
A journal article with 2 authors
Zhang SC, Hu J (2001) A four-dimensional generalization of the quantum Hall effect. Science 294:823–828
A journal article with 3 authors
Lee H, Habas R, Abate-Shen C (2004) MSX1 cooperates with histone H1b for inhibition of transcription and myogenesis. Science 304:1675–1678
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Lu J, Zhong J, Tang Y, et al (2014) Synchronization in output-coupled temporal Boolean networks. Sci Rep 4:6292

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Doyle JF (2005) Modern Experimental Stress Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK
An edited book
Schneier-Madanes G, Courel M-F (eds) (2010) Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions: Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Social Sciences. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht
A chapter in an edited book
Lee SP (2016) Cosmopolitan Citizenship. In: Cudd AE, Lee W-C (eds) Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 45–58

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
Fang J (2014) Even Death Doesn’t Stop Geckos From Sticking To The Walls. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/death-will-not-stop-geckos-sticking-walls/. 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 (2008) Chemical Assessments: EPA’s New Assessment Process Will Further Limit the Productivity and Credibility of Its Integrated Risk Information System. 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
Green JL (2012) The leadership practices of executive women of local government. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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
Kelly DA (2004) Weekender | Lenox, Mass. New York Times F8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DiVincenzo 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Zhang and Hu 2001; DiVincenzo 2011).

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

  • Two authors: (Zhang and Hu 2001)
  • Three or more authors: (Lu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleEuropean Journal of Ageing
AbbreviationEur. J. Ageing
ISSN (print)1613-9372
ISSN (online)1613-9380
ScopeGeriatrics and Gerontology
Health(social science)

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