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

Allen, P.A., 2008. From landscapes into geological history. Nature 451, 274–276.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu, W., Südhof, T.C., 2013. A neural circuit for memory specificity and generalization. Science 339, 1290–1295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hahnloser, R.H.R., Kozhevnikov, A.A., Fee, M.S., 2002. An ultra-sparse code underlies the generation of neural sequences in a songbird. Nature 419, 65–70.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ciccone, D.N., Su, H., Hevi, S., Gay, F., Lei, H., Bajko, J., Xu, G., Li, E., Chen, T., 2009. KDM1B is a histone H3K4 demethylase required to establish maternal genomic imprints. Nature 461, 415–418.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joseph, C.L., Bernal, S., 2016. Modern Devices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chen, H., Chau, M., Li, S.-H., Urs, S., Srinivasa, S., Wang, G.A. (Eds.), 2010. Intelligence and Security Informatics: Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2010, Hyderabad, India, June 21, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Black, D.C., Donovan, J., Bunton, B., Keist, A., 2010. A Notion of Time, in: Donovan, J., Bunton, B., Keist, A. (Eds.), SystemC: From the Ground Up. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 59–64.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. What Are Brain-Eating Amoebas And How Can We Reduce Their Harm? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-are-brain-eating-amoebas-and-how-can-we-reduce-their-harm/ (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, 2001. Space Transportation: Critical Areas NASA Needs to Address in Managing Its Reusable Launch Vehicle Program (No. GAO-01-826T). 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

Liu, Y., 2013. Analysis on the distinct path in a star interconnection network (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

Kishkovsky, S., 2013. Bolshoi Official Raises Attack Questions. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Allen, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Allen, 2008; Xu and Südhof, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Xu and Südhof, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ciccone et al., 2009)

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