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

Stern, P. (2010). Glia. Glee for glia. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6005), 773.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barber, M. F., & Elde, N. C. (2014). Nutritional immunity. Escape from bacterial iron piracy through rapid evolution of transferrin. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6215), 1362–1366.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mongillo, G., Barak, O., & Tsodyks, M. (2008). Synaptic theory of working memory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5869), 1543–1546.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Nakanishi-Matsui, M., Zheng, Y. W., Sulciner, D. J., Weiss, E. J., Ludeman, M. J., & Coughlin, S. R. (2000). PAR3 is a cofactor for PAR4 activation by thrombin. Nature, 404(6778), 609–613.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saunders, A., & Allen, L. (2010). Credit Risk Management in and Out of the Financial Crisis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Atzeni, P., Cheung, D., & Ram, S. (Eds.). (2012). Conceptual Modeling: 31st International Conference ER 2012, Florence, Italy, October 15-18, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7532). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirsch, F., Profeta, C., Roynette, B., & Yor, M. (2011). The Sato Process Method. In C. Profeta, B. Roynette, & M. Yor (Eds.), Peacocks and Associated Martingales, with Explicit Constructions (pp. 181–221). 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, D. (2016, November 17). Red, Yellow, Pink And Green: How The World’s Languages Name The Rainbow. 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. (1979). Authority To Waive Claims by District of Columbia Against Employee or Former Employee (B-192020). 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

Demenkoff, J. H. (2014). Evolution and emergence of the masculinities: Epiphanies and epiphenomena of the male athlete and dancer [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Erdbrink, T. (2017, June 8). As Toll Rises, Iran Says ISIS Recruited Attackers From Within Country. New York Times, A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stern, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Barber & Elde, 2014; Stern, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Barber & Elde, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Nakanishi-Matsui et al., 2000)

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