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

Shelach, G. (2012). Anthropology. On the invention of pottery. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6089), 1644–1645.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krauss, L. M., & Chaboyer, B. (2003). Age estimates of globular clusters in the Milky Way: constraints on cosmology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5603), 65–69.

A journal article with 3 authors

Young, B. A., Gruber, T. M., & Gross, C. A. (2004). Minimal machinery of RNA polymerase holoenzyme sufficient for promoter melting. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5662), 1382–1384.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Decker, R. B., Krimigis, S. M., Roelof, E. C., Hill, M. E., Armstrong, T. P., Gloeckler, G., Hamilton, D. C., & Lanzerotti, L. J. (2005). Voyager 1 in the foreshock, termination shock, and heliosheath. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5743), 2020–2024.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paret, D., & Huon, J.-P. (2017). Secure Connected Objects. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wojtkowski, W., Wojtkowski, W. G., Zupancic, J., Magyar, G., & Knapp, G. (Eds.). (2007). Advances in Information Systems Development: New Methods and Practice for the Networked Society. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Clark, D., & Hunt, S. (2009). Non-Interference for Deterministic Interactive Programs. In P. Degano, J. Guttman, & F. Martinelli (Eds.), Formal Aspects in Security and Trust: 5th International Workshop, FAST 2008 Malaga, Spain, October 9-10, 2008 Revised Selected Papers (pp. 50–66). 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

Evans, K. (2016, July 12). Here’s The Easiest Way To Undo The Harms Of Sitting All Day. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1998). Aerospace Testing: Promise of Closer NASA/DOD Cooperation Remains Largely Unfulfilled (NSIAD-98-52). 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

Alajmi, H. (2012). Pre-Islamic Poetry and Speech Act Theory: Al-A`shá, Bishr ibn Abī Khāzim, and al-Hujayjah [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana University.

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, June 26). Justices Reject Suit on Federal Money for Faith-Based Office. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shelach, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Krauss & Chaboyer, 2003; Shelach, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Krauss & Chaboyer, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Decker et al., 2005)

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