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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Benford, G. (2004). Reality is wilder. Nature, 432(7020), 955.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuo, I.-F. W., & Mundy, C. J. (2004). An ab initio molecular dynamics study of the aqueous liquid-vapor interface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5658), 658–660.

A journal article with 3 authors

Savaldi-Goldstein, S., Peto, C., & Chory, J. (2007). The epidermis both drives and restricts plant shoot growth. Nature, 446(7132), 199–202.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Suh, G. S. B., Wong, A. M., Hergarden, A. C., Wang, J. W., Simon, A. F., Benzer, S., Axel, R., & Anderson, D. J. (2004). A single population of olfactory sensory neurons mediates an innate avoidance behaviour in Drosophila. Nature, 431(7010), 854–859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Esmailzadeh, R. (2006). Broadband Wireless Communications Business. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Träger, F. (Ed.). (2012). Springer Handbook of Lasers and Optics. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, J., Chen, D., Wang, L., & Lemon, O. (2010). An Advanced Learning Environment Aided by Recognition of Multi-modal Social Signals. In X. Luo, M. Spaniol, L. Wang, Q. Li, W. Nejdl, & W. Zhang (Eds.), Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2010: 9th International Conference, Shanghai, China, December 8-10, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 41–51). 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, November 10). New Study Suggests Meditation Can Actually Alter Your Body On A Cellular Level. 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. (2016). High-Containment Laboratories: Improved Oversight of Dangerous Pathogens Needed to Mitigate Risk (GAO-16-642). 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

Wang, Y. (2012). Yield aggregation impacts on area-based insurance and commodity program [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

Eligon, J. (2017, January 28). Trump’s ‘Carnage’ Label Misses Complex Reality of Many Urban Areas. New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benford, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Benford, 2004; Kuo & Mundy, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kuo & Mundy, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Suh et al., 2004)

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