How to format your references using the Psychology and Aging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychology and 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

Laloë, F. (2003). Obituary: Jean Brossel (1918-2003). Nature, 422(6929), 274.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elena, S. F., & Sanjuán, R. (2003). Evolution. Climb every mountain? Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5653), 2074–2075.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jan, C. H., Williams, C. C., & Weissman, J. S. (2015). LOCAL TRANSLATION. Response to Comment on “Principles of ER cotranslational translocation revealed by proximity-specific ribosome profiling.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6240), 1217.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wienholds, E., Kloosterman, W. P., Miska, E., Alvarez-Saavedra, E., Berezikov, E., de Bruijn, E., Horvitz, H. R., Kauppinen, S., & Plasterk, R. H. A. (2005). MicroRNA expression in zebrafish embryonic development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5732), 310–311.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carvalho, M. C. (2016). Practical Laboratory Automation. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Upreti, D. K., Divakar, P. K., Shukla, V., & Bajpai, R. (Eds.). (2015). Recent Advances in Lichenology: Modern Methods and Approaches in Lichen Systematics and Culture Techniques, Volume 2. Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Lu, Z., Qu, Y., & Qiao, S. (2014). Reference Ellipsoid and the Geodetic Coordinate System. In Y. Qu & S. Qiao (Eds.), Geodesy: Introduction to Geodetic Datum and Geodetic Systems (pp. 165–263). Springer.

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 Psychology and Aging.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 10). Highest Carbon Dioxide Levels In 800,000 Years. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1988). Space Exploration: Cost, Schedule, and Performance of NASA’s Galileo Mission to Jupiter (NSIAD-88-138FS). 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

Martinez, J. C. (2015). Theoretically tested remediation in response to insect resistance to Bt corn and Bt cotton: A new paradigm [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Cowen, T. (2014, August 22). From Colonial India, Lessons for a Changed Economy. New York Times, BU4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Laloë, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Elena & Sanjuán, 2003; Laloë, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Elena & Sanjuán, 2003)
Three authors: (Jan et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Wienholds et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychology and Aging
Abbreviation	Psychol. Aging
ISSN (print)	0882-7974
ISSN (online)	1939-1498
Scope	Ageing Geriatrics and Gerontology Social Psychology