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

Crooks, R. M. (2014). Therapeutics: Detective work on drug dosage. Nature, 505(7482), 165–166.

A journal article with 2 authors

Qian, H., & Ricklefs, R. E. (2000). Large-scale processes and the Asian bias in species diversity of temperate plants. Nature, 407(6801), 180–182.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sergio, F., Newton, I., & Marchesi, L. (2005). Conservation: top predators and biodiversity. Nature, 436(7048), 192.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

McCracken, K. G., Wilson, R. E., McCracken, P. J., & Johnson, K. P. (2001). Sexual selection. Are ducks impressed by drakes’ display? Nature, 413(6852), 128.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grist, F. (2010). Basic Guide to Orthodontic Dental Nursing. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Guo, W. (2012). The Application of the Chebyshev-Spectral Method in Transport Phenomena (G. Labrosse & R. Narayanan, Eds.; Vol. 68). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Borgefors, G., Nyström, I., & di Baja, G. S. (2008). Discrete Skeletons from Distance Transforms in 2D and 3D. In K. Siddiqi & S. M. Pizer (Eds.), Medial Representations: Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications (pp. 155–190). Springer Netherlands.

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, December 11). Scientists Reveal Genome’s Origami Shape With 3-D Maps. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-reveal-genome-s-origami-shape-3-d-maps/

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. (2010). Business Systems Modernization: Scope and Content of DOD’s Congressional Report and Executive Oversight of Investments Need to Improve (GAO-10-663). 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

Kaiser, C. V. (2015). “Maps of the world[s] in its becoming[s]”: Seeking queer potentialities in the post-apocalyptic narrative [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

Paulson, M. (2017, August 29). How ‘Great Comet’ Burned Out. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crooks, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Crooks, 2014; Qian & Ricklefs, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Qian & Ricklefs, 2000)
Three authors: (Sergio et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (McCracken et al., 2001)

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