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

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

[1]

Chast F. Obituary: Pierre Potier (1934-2006). Nature 2006;440:291.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Marraffini LA, Sontheimer EJ. Self versus non-self discrimination during CRISPR RNA-directed immunity. Nature 2010;463:568–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Suthram S, Sittler T, Ideker T. The Plasmodium protein network diverges from those of other eukaryotes. Nature 2005;438:108–12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lemma V, D’Agostino M, Caporaso MG, Mallardo M, Oliviero G, Stornaiuolo M, et al. A disorder-to-order structural transition in the COOH-tail of Fz4 determines misfolding of the L501fsX533-Fz4 mutant. Sci Rep 2013;3:2659.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Saadoun AP. Esthetic Soft Tissue Management of Teeth and Implants. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Fogarty TJ, White RA, editors. Peripheral Endovascular Interventions. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Schneider JK. Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensors. In: Ratha NK, Govindaraju V, editors. Advances in Biometrics: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems, London: Springer; 2008, p. 63–74.

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 Science.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Oldest Sex Act Revealed. IFLScience 2014.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Status of Farmers Home Administration Efforts To Install Office Automation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Grigoryan A. Feedback 2.0 in online writing instruction: Combining audio-visual and text-based commentary to enhance student revision and writing competency. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2015.

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

[1]

Schmidt MS. Officials Cancel Plans to Build New Headquarters for the F.B.I. New York Times 2017:A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurobiology of Aging Science
ISSN (print)	2589-9589
Scope