How to format your references using the European Review of Aging and Physical Activity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Review of Aging and Physical Activity. 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. Gewin V. Building up to an HIV vaccines. Nature. 2008;456:418.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Mahadevan L, Rica S. Self-organized origami. Science. 2005;307:1740.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bylicka B, Chruściński D, Maniscalco S. Non-Markovianity and reservoir memory of quantum channels: a quantum information theory perspective. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5720.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yin Q, Jacobsen SB, Yamashita K, Blichert-Toft J, Télouk P, Albarède F. A short timescale for terrestrial planet formation from Hf-W chronometry of meteorites. Nature. 2002;418:949–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Li FM, Nathan A, Wu Y, Ong BS. Organic Thin Film Transistor Integration. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

1. Humar A, Sturdevant ML, editors. Atlas of Organ Transplantation. 2nd ed. 2015. London: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kou G, Ergu D, Peng Y, Shi Y. IBMM for Missing Data Estimation. In: Ergu D, Peng Y, Shi Y, editors. Data Processing for the AHP/ANP. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 65–75.

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 Review of Aging and Physical Activity.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Can Hickeys Really Cause Some People To Have A Stroke? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-hickeys-cause-people-to-have-strokes/

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. Aviation Services: Automation and Consolidation of Flight Service Stations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Feb. Report No.: RCED-88-77.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sinha R. An Integrated Development Environment for the Clara Constraint-Programming Language [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Sisario B. After Shake-Up, Pandora Picks Chief of Sling TV To Be Its New C.E.O. New York Times. 2017 Aug 14;B2.

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	European Review of Aging and Physical Activity
Abbreviation	Eur. Rev. Aging Phys. Act.
ISSN (print)	1813-7253
ISSN (online)	1861-6909
Scope	Geriatrics and Gerontology