How to format your references using the GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry. 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

Kieffer, J. (2003). Materials science. Not too hot to handle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5615), 1998–1999.

A journal article with 2 authors

Larsen, P. L., & Clarke, C. F. (2002). Extension of life-span in Caenorhabditis elegans by a diet lacking coenzyme Q. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5552), 120–123.

A journal article with 3 authors

Janetopoulos, C., Jin, T., & Devreotes, P. (2001). Receptor-mediated activation of heterotrimeric G-proteins in living cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5512), 2408–2411.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cloos, P. A. C., Christensen, J., Agger, K., Maiolica, A., Rappsilber, J., Antal, T., Hansen, K. H., & Helin, K. (2006). The putative oncogene GASC1 demethylates tri- and dimethylated lysine 9 on histone H3. Nature, 442(7100), 307–311.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Curioso, A., Bradford, R., & Galbraith, P. (2010). Expert PHP and MySQL®. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Duncan, B. (2015). Please God Send Me a Wreck: Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australian Community (M. Gibbs, Ed.; Vol. 3). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ploux, F. (2008). Violence in France’s Past: An Anthropological Approach. In S. Body-Gendrot & P. Spierenburg (Eds.), Violence in Europe (pp. 65–78). Springer.

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 GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 10). The Public Must Speak Up About Gene Editing – Beyond Embryo Modification. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/public-must-speak-about-gene-editing-beyond-embryo-modification/

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. (1985). Block Grants Brought Funding Changes and Adjustments to Program Priorities (HRD-85-33). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Luna, D. (2014). Preventing obesity among foster youth through nutrition and outdoor activities: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Novick, S. M. (2015, January 18). Feast of Championships. New York Times, LI10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kieffer, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kieffer, 2003; Larsen & Clarke, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Larsen & Clarke, 2002)
Three authors: (Janetopoulos et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Cloos et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry
Abbreviation	GeroPsych (Bern)
ISSN (print)	1662-9647
ISSN (online)	1662-971X
Scope	Geriatrics and Gerontology Gerontology