How to format your references using the Experimental Gerontology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental Gerontology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Feagin, R., 2009. Journal club. A coastal ecologist sees the hidden effects of hurricanes. Nature 461, 319.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, Z., Becker, H., 2013. Ratios of S, Se and Te in the silicate Earth require a volatile-rich late veneer. Nature 499, 328–331.

A journal article with 3 authors

Downs, J.A., Lowndes, N.F., Jackson, S.P., 2000. A role for Saccharomyces cerevisiae histone H2A in DNA repair. Nature 408, 1001–1004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tyson, G.W., Chapman, J., Hugenholtz, P., Allen, E.E., Ram, R.J., Richardson, P.M., Solovyev, V.V., Rubin, E.M., Rokhsar, D.S., Banfield, J.F., 2004. Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment. Nature 428, 37–43.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Steele, D., 2011. From Therapist to Coach. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Friedman, H., Klein, T.W., Bendinelli, M. (Eds.), 2005. Infectious Diseases and Substance Abuse, Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Dumont, M., Cook, A., Kinsley, N., 2016. Acceleration Measurement Optimization: Mounting Considerations and Sensor Mass Effect, in: Mains, M. (Ed.), Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 10: Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2016, Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 61–71.

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 Experimental Gerontology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2017. How Animals Can Help Autistic Children [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-animals-can-help-autistic-children/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1997. Commercial Trucking: Safety Concerns About Mexican Trucks Remain Even as Inspection Activity Increases (No. RCED-97-68). 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

Vento, K.A., 2017. The Effects of Progressive Muscle Relaxation on the Subjective Well-Being of Collegiate Athletes (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Gordon, M.R., 2017. Iraqi Forces Open a New Front Against ISIS in West Mosul. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Feagin, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Feagin, 2009; Wang and Becker, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Becker, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Tyson et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental Gerontology
Abbreviation	Exp. Gerontol.
ISSN (print)	0531-5565
Scope	Ageing Biochemistry Cell Biology Endocrinology Genetics Molecular Biology