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

Fisher, L., 2015. Avoid major disasters by welcoming minor change. Nature 527, 9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peters, S.E., Foote, M., 2002. Determinants of extinction in the fossil record. Nature 416, 420–424.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshino, T., Walter, M.J., Katsura, T., 2003. Core formation in planetesimals triggered by permeable flow. Nature 422, 154–157.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Korniss, G., Novotny, M.A., Guclu, H., Toroczkai, Z., Rikvold, P.A., 2003. Suppressing roughness of virtual times in parallel discrete-event simulations. Science 299, 677–679.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hossain, M.E., 2016. Fundamentals of Drilling Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mitra, S.K. (Ed.), 2013. Citizenship as Cultural Flow: Structure, Agency and Power, Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ono, T., Ambe, D., Kaeriyama, H., Shigenobu, Y., Fujimoto, K., Sogame, K., Nishiura, N., Fujikawa, T., Morita, T., Watanabe, T., 2015. Radiocesium Concentrations in the Organic Fraction of Sea Sediments, in: Nakata, K., Sugisaki, H. (Eds.), Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Fish and Fishing Grounds. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 67–75.

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 Experimental Gerontology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. What’s Next For Tobacco Control? A Smoke-Free Generation [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2006. Head Start: Additional Information on Implementation of Transportation Regulations (No. GAO-07-194R). 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

Delaney, R.M., 2014. A qualitative descriptive case study explaining professional development in community corrections (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Justices Raise Doubts on Campaign Finance Law. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fisher, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Fisher, 2015; Peters and Foote, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Peters and Foote, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Korniss et al., 2003)

About the journal

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