How to format your references using the Geriatrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geriatrics. 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

Wine, J.J. Medicine. Letting Go of Mucus. Science 2014, 345, 730–731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaproth, B.M.; Marone, C. Slow Earthquakes, Preseismic Velocity Changes, and the Origin of Slow Frictional Stick-Slip. Science 2013, 341, 1229–1232.

A journal article with 3 authors

Malinowski, J.T.; Sharpe, R.J.; Johnson, J.S. Enantioselective Synthesis of Pactamycin, a Complex Antitumor Antibiotic. Science 2013, 340, 180–182.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Panda, S.K.; Dasgupta, I.; Şaşıoğlu, E.; Blügel, S.; Sarma, D.D. NiS--an Unusual Self-Doped, Nearly Compensated Antiferromagnetic Metal. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2995.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krichen, S.; Chaouachi, J. Graph-Related Optimization and Decision Support Systems; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2014; ISBN 9781118984260.

An edited book

Barros, R.C. Automatic Design of Decision-Tree Induction Algorithms; de Carvalho, A.C.P.L.F., Freitas, A.A., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; ISBN 9783319142302.

A chapter in an edited book

Jacot, J.G.; Raskin, A.J.; Omens, J.H.; McCulloch, A.D.; Tung, L. Mechanostransduction in Cardiac and Stem-Cell Derived Cardiac Cells. In Mechanosensitivity of the Heart; Kamkin, A., Kiseleva, I., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2010; pp. 99–139 ISBN 9789048128495.

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 Geriatrics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Staying Alive Is Just Step One For West Africa’s Ebola Survivors Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/staying-alive-just-step-one-west-africa-s-ebola-survivors/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Schools and Libraries Program: Update on E-Rate Funding; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2001;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mani, V. Empirical Study of Link between Operations and Financial Performance for Retailers. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, NC, 2011.

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

Koblin, J.; Barnes, B. A Lavish Emmy Campaign. New York Times 2017, B1.

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	Geriatrics
Abbreviation	Geriatrics (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2308-3417
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