How to format your references using the Journal of Aging Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Aging Studies. 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	Download the output style file
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

Rawlins, E. L. (2015). Stem cells: Emergency back-up for lung repair. Nature, 517(7536), 556–557.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson, A. J., & Schoeman, D. S. (2004). Climate impact on plankton ecosystems in the Northeast Atlantic. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5690), 1609–1612.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sack, L., Marañón, T., & Grubb, P. J. (2002). Global allocation rules for patterns of biomass partitioning. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5575), 1923.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kim, H.-S., Oh, S.-S., Ha, H.-S., Youm, D., Moon, S.-H., Kim, J. H., Dou, S. X., Heo, Y.-U., Wee, S.-H., & Goyal, A. (2014). Ultra-high performance, high-temperature superconducting wires via cost-effective, scalable, co-evaporation process. Scientific Reports, 4, 4744.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaughan, D., Robinson, N., Lucas, N., & Arulkumaran, S. (2010). Handbook of Obstetric High Dependency Care. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Ometto, J. P., Bun, R., Jonas, M., & Nahorski, Z. (Eds.). (2015). Uncertainties in Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Expanding Our Perspective. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mishra, P. K., Singh, K., & Baruntar, S. (2012). ID-Based Threshold Signcryption and Group Unsigncryption. In S. M. Thampi, A. Y. Zomaya, T. Strufe, J. M. Alcaraz Calero, & T. Thomas (Eds.), Recent Trends in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Security: International Conference, SNDS 2012, Trivandrum, India, October 11-12, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 35–44). 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 Journal of Aging Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 30). What Is This Bizarre See-Through Creature? 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. (1988). Guaranteed Student Loans: Lenders’ Interest Billings Often Result in Overpayments (HRD-88-72). 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

Zehnder, D. W. (2003). Host-[2]Rotaxane: A Novel Molecular Machine [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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, June 22). Film Series. New York Times, C22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rawlins, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rawlins, 2015; Richardson & Schoeman, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Richardson & Schoeman, 2004)
Three authors: (Sack et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Kim et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Aging Studies
Abbreviation	J. Aging Stud.
ISSN (print)	0890-4065
Scope	General Medicine Health Policy Issues, ethics and legal aspects