How to format your references using the Journal of Population Ageing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Population Ageing. 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

Charlesworth, B. (2000). No pie in the sky, thanks. Nature, 404(6777), 431.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bonnet, R.-M., & Bleeker, J. A. M. (2011). Astrophysics. A dark age for space astronomy? Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6039), 161–162.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Y., Lu, H., & Bargmann, C. I. (2005). Pathogenic bacteria induce aversive olfactory learning in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature, 438(7065), 179–184.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Murdock, C. C., Blanford, S., Hughes, G. L., Rasgon, J. L., & Thomas, M. B. (2014). Temperature alters Plasmodium blocking by Wolbachia. Scientific reports, 4, 3932.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mubarak, S. (2010). Construction Project Scheduling and Control. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lai, C.-D. (2006). Stochastic Ageing and Dependence for Reliability. (M. Xie, Ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hombach, L. E., & Walther, G. (2015). Evaluation of CO2 Abatement Measures for (Bio-) Fuel Production. In J. Dethloff, H.-D. Haasis, H. Kopfer, H. Kotzab, & J. Schönberger (Eds.), Logistics Management: Products, Actors, Technology - Proceedings of the German Academic Association for Business Research, Bremen, 2013 (pp. 39–51). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Population Ageing.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 16). How Hubble’s Successor Will Give Us A Glimpse Into The Very First Galaxies. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2001). Space Station: Inadequate Planning and Design Led to Propulsion Module Project Failure (No. GAO-01-633). Washington, DC: 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

Estrin, J. L. (2014). Sitting in the Fire: An Exploration of Soul-Making in Prison (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Pilon, M. (2013, December 30). At the End, the Telltale Runners’ Bags. New York Times, p. D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Charlesworth 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bonnet and Bleeker 2011; Charlesworth 2000).

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

Two authors: (Bonnet and Bleeker 2011)
Three or more authors: (Murdock et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Population Ageing
Abbreviation	J. Popul. Ageing
ISSN (print)	1874-7884
ISSN (online)	1874-7876
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Sociology and Political Science Demography

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