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

Friedman, J.M., 2000. Obesity in the new millennium. Nature 404, 632–634.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanders, R.W., Moore, J.P., 2014. HIV: A stamp on the envelope. Nature 514, 437–438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wheeler, Q., Assis, L., Rieppel, O., 2013. Phylogenetics: Heed the father of cladistics. Nature 496, 295–296.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pederson, J., Young, R., Lucchitta, I., Beard, L.S., Billingsley, G., 2008. Comment on “Age and evolution of the Grand Canyon revealed by U-Pb dating of water table-type speleothems.” Science 321, 1634; author reply 1634.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bolstad, W.M., Curran, J.M., 2016. Introduction to Bayesian Statistics, Third Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Khan, M.S., Zaidi, A., Musarrat, J. (Eds.), 2009. Microbial Strategies for Crop Improvement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bravetti, M., Zavattaro, G., 2007. Towards a Unifying Theory for Choreography Conformance and Contract Compliance, in: Lumpe, M., Vanderperren, W. (Eds.), Software Composition: 6th International Symposium, SC 2007, Braga, Portugal, March 24-25, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 34–50.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Antarctic Ice Melt Could Be Worse Than We Realized [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/antarctic-ice-melt-could-be-worse-we-realized/ (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, 2001. NASA: Status of Achieving Key Outcomes and Addressing Major Management Challenges (No. GAO-01-868). 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

Terry, E.J., 2008. In search of leadership: A look at women presidents in Georgia’s two-year colleges and technical colleges (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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., 2011. Great Pitching, Greater Expectations. New York Times B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Friedman, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Friedman, 2000; Sanders and Moore, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sanders and Moore, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Pederson et al., 2008)

About the journal

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