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. Perutz RN. Chemistry. A catalytic foothold for fluorocarbon reactions. Science. 2008;321:1168–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lu X, Brelsford C. Network structure and community evolution on Twitter: human behavior change in response to the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6773.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lonsdorf EV, Eberly LE, Pusey AE. Sex differences in learning in chimpanzees. Nature. 2004;428:715–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sugimoto J, Sugimoto M, Bernstein H, Jinno Y, Schust D. A novel human endogenous retroviral protein inhibits cell-cell fusion. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1462.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Grigorenko YN, Chilingar GV, Sobolev VS, Andiyeva TA, Zhukova LI. Petroleum Accumulation Zones on Continental Margins. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Bonavida B, editor. Resistance to Immunotherapeutic Antibodies in Cancer: Strategies to Overcome Resistance. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pundik S, Suarez JI. Metabolic Encephalopathy Stroke – Clinical Features. In: McCandless DW, editor. Metabolic Encephalopathy. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. p. 69–83.

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. Andrew E. Could One Million Smart Pool Pumps ‘Store’ Renewable Energy Better Than Giant Batteries? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Bilingual Education: Information on Limited English Proficient Students. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Apr. Report No.: HRD-87-85BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Yasa SR. Visual Basic Simulation of H2S Removal from Natural Gas at Downhole in an Extraction Well [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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. Belson K, Pilon M. Felix’s 200-Meter Win May Help Settle the 100. New York Times. 2012 Jul 1;SP7.

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