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

Markham, J., 2014. Rare species occupy uncommon niches. Sci. Rep. 4, 6012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weiss, R.B., Atkins, J.F., 2011. Molecular biology. Translation goes global. Science 334, 1509–1510.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeng, B., Gao, Y., Bartoli, F.J., 2013. Ultrathin nanostructured metals for highly transmissive plasmonic subtractive color filters. Sci. Rep. 3, 2840.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Islam, S.T., Huszczynski, S.M., Nugent, T., Gold, A.C., Lam, J.S., 2013. Conserved-residue mutations in Wzy affect O-antigen polymerization and Wzz-mediated chain-length regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Sci. Rep. 3, 3441.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Batten, L.M., 2013. Public Key Cryptography. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kahraman, C. (Ed.), 2008. Fuzzy Engineering Economics with Applications, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Mares, E.D., 2013. Information, Negation, and Paraconsistency, in: Tanaka, K., Berto, F., Mares, E., Paoli, F. (Eds.), Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 43–55.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Could Dark Energy Contribute To The Arrow Of Time? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-dark-energy-contribute-arrow-time/ (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, 1993. Tax Administration: Achieving Business and Technical Goals In Tax Systems Modernization (No. T-GGD-93-24). 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

Thornsberry, J.L., 2010. Freshman transition and its effectiveness on student success as measured by improved attendance, improved grades, decreased discipline referrals, and decreased dropout rate (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Marx, L., 2014. After the Guests Have Left. New York Times ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Markham, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Markham, 2014; Weiss and Atkins, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Weiss and Atkins, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Islam et al., 2013)

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

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