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

Werner, R. The Focus on Bibliometrics Makes Papers Less Useful. Nature 2015, 517, 245.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nanus, D.M.; Giannakakou, P. CANCER. Cancer Therapies That Are Gone with the Wnt. Science 2015, 349, 1283–1284.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rössler, U.K.; Bogdanov, A.N.; Pfleiderer, C. Spontaneous Skyrmion Ground States in Magnetic Metals. Nature 2006, 442, 797–801.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, H.; Smith, G.J.D.; Zhang, S.Y.; Qin, K.; Wang, J.; Li, K.S.; Webster, R.G.; Peiris, J.S.M.; Guan, Y. Avian Flu: H5N1 Virus Outbreak in Migratory Waterfowl. Nature 2005, 436, 191–192.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geier, R.; Angelmaier, V.; Graubner, C.-A.; Kohoutek, J. Integrale Brücken; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2017; ISBN 9783433606445.

An edited book

Bowman, H. Concurrency Theory: Calculi and Automata for Modelling Untimed and Timed Concurrent Systems; Gomez, R., Ed.; Springer: London, 2006; ISBN 9781852338954.

A chapter in an edited book

Härdle, W.K.; Simar, L. Theory of the Multinormal. In Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis; Simar, L., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015; pp. 183–199 ISBN 9783662451700.

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

Hamilton, K. Does Your Smartphone Make You Less Likely To Trust Others? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/does-your-smartphone-make-you-less-likely-to-trust-others/ (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 Aviation Safety: Commuter Airline Safety Would Be Enhanced With Better FAA Oversight; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wulfsberg, J.C. Singing Turkish, Performing Turkishness: Message and Audience in the Song Competition of the International Turkish Olympiad. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ, 2015.

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

(nyt), S.K. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Writer-Politician To Be Freed. New York Times 2003, A10.

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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