How to format your references using the Neurobiology of Aging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurobiology of Aging. 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

Russo, G., 2008. Biotech in Bangalore. Nature 452, 660–661.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor, J.R.A., Kier, W.M., 2006. Biomechanics: a pneumo-hydrostatic skeleton in land crabs. Nature 440, 1005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yue, H., Lay, T., Koper, K.D., 2012. En échelon and orthogonal fault ruptures of the 11 April 2012 great intraplate earthquakes. Nature 490, 245–249.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bouskra, D., Brézillon, C., Bérard, M., Werts, C., Varona, R., Boneca, I.G., Eberl, G., 2008. Lymphoid tissue genesis induced by commensals through NOD1 regulates intestinal homeostasis. Nature 456, 507–510.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chowdhury, D., Stauffer, D., 2005. Principles of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Radu, R., Chenou, J.-M., Weber, R.H. (Eds.), 2014. The Evolution of Global Internet Governance: Principles and Policies in the Making. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Cleland, N., Zakeri, G., Pritchard, G., Young, B., 2016. Integrating Consumption and Reserve Strategies for Large Consumers in Electricity Markets, in: Fonseca, R.J., Weber, G.-W., Telhada, J. (Eds.), Computational Management Science: State of the Art 2014, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 23–30.

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 Neurobiology of Aging.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. What Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1983. GAO ADP Data Lines: Issue No. 3 (No. 122633). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Hume, D.M., 2010. The reader as collaborator in Coleridge’s fragments “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Christabel,” and “Kubla Khan”: Kindling “Native flames” rather than reflecting “Alien fires” (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Apuzzo, M., Goldman, A., Mazzetti, M., 2017. F.B.I. Warned G.O.P. Congressman Russian Spies Were Recruiting Him. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russo, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Russo, 2008; Taylor and Kier, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Taylor and Kier, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Bouskra et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurobiology of Aging
Abbreviation	Neurobiol. Aging
ISSN (print)	0197-4580
Scope	Ageing Developmental Biology Geriatrics and Gerontology Clinical Neurology General Neuroscience