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

Begelman, M. C. (2003). Evidence for black holes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5627), 1898–1903.

A journal article with 2 authors

Di Domizio, J., & Gilliet, M. (2015). SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. Designer cells finely tuned for therapy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6267), 1478–1479.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackerman, J. M., Nocera, C. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2010). Incidental haptic sensations influence social judgments and decisions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5986), 1712–1715.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Woudstra, E. C., Gilbert, C., Fellows, J., Jansen, L., Brouwer, J., Erdjument-Bromage, H., Tempst, P., & Svejstrup, J. Q. (2002). A Rad26-Def1 complex coordinates repair and RNA pol II proteolysis in response to DNA damage. Nature, 415(6874), 929–933.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lev, B., & Gu, F. (2016). The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chow, J. H., Wu, F. F., & Momoh, J. (Eds.). (2005). Applied Mathematics for Restructured Electric Power Systems: Optimization, Control, and Computational Intelligence. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Rehman, H. U., & Gwaltney, S. R. (2014). Structure and Energetics of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (T8,T10,T12-POSS) Cages with Atomic and Ionic Lithium Species. In J. Leszczynski & M. K. Shukla (Eds.), Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry III (pp. 151–165). Springer US.

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

Fang, J. (2016, May 25). Why Net-Casting Spiders Have Such Enormous Eyes. 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. (2009). Higher Education: Factors Lenders Consider in Making Lending Decisions for Private Education Loans (GAO-10-86R). 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

Dickson, B. (2008). Yielding architecture: A manifesto for [urban + agri]culture [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Lyman, R. (2017, July 22). Polish Parliament Acts to Upend Nation’s Courts. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Begelman, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Begelman, 2003; Di Domizio & Gilliet, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Di Domizio & Gilliet, 2015)
Three authors: (Ackerman et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Woudstra et al., 2002)

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

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