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

Vogel, G. (2000). DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: Brain Cells Turning Over a New Leaf. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5485), 1666a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mariani, F. V., & Martin, G. R. (2003). Deciphering skeletal patterning: clues from the limb. Nature, 423(6937), 319–325.

A journal article with 3 authors

Locher, K. P., Bass, R. B., & Rees, D. C. (2003). Structural biology. Breaching the barrier. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5633), 603–604.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nakanishi, Y., Lu, B., Gerard, C., & Iwasaki, A. (2009). CD8(+) T lymphocyte mobilization to virus-infected tissue requires CD4(+) T-cell help. Nature, 462(7272), 510–513.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, K. Q. T. (2015). Wireless Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lim, C. P., Jain, L. C., & Dehuri, S. (Eds.). (2009). Innovations in Swarm Intelligence (Vol. 248). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou, C., Feng, X., & Lin, D. (2011). The Initialization Stage Analysis of ZUC v1.5. In D. Lin, G. Tsudik, & X. Wang (Eds.), Cryptology and Network Security: 10th International Conference, CANS 2011, Sanya, China, December 10-12, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 40–53). 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, August 18). Scientists Hit Back At Scottish Ban On Growing GM Crops. 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). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Actions Needed on Electronic Data Exchanges (AIMD-98-124). 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

Kang, E. Y. (2010). Late Twentieth-Century Piano Concert Etudes: A Style Study [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2008, September 6). Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches. New York Times, A5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vogel, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Mariani & Martin, 2003; Vogel, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Mariani & Martin, 2003)
Three authors: (Locher et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Nakanishi et al., 2009)

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