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

Ganem, D. (2001). Virology. The X files--one step closer to closure. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5550), 2299–2300.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rout, M. E., & Callaway, R. M. (2009). Plant science. An invasive plant paradox. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5928), 734–735.

A journal article with 3 authors

Broza, Y. Y., Zuri, L., & Haick, H. (2014). Combined volatolomics for monitoring of human body chemistry. Scientific Reports, 4, 4611.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Eschner, J., Raab, C., Schmidt-Kaler, F., & Blatt, R. (2001). Light interference from single atoms and their mirror images. Nature, 413(6855), 495–498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prud’Homme, R. (2013). Flows and Chemical Reactions in Homogeneous Mixtures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Velde, C. R. (Ed.). (2009). International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Overgaard, M., & Sandberg, K. (2014). Kinds of Access: Different Methods for Report Reveal Different Kinds of Metacognitive Access. In S. M. Fleming & C. D. Frith (Eds.), The Cognitive Neuroscience of Metacognition (pp. 67–85). 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

Davis, J. (2017, January 3). China To Ban All Trade In Ivory By End Of 2017. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/china-to-ban-all-trade-in-ivory-by-end-of-2017/

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. (2001). Proposed Alliance Between American Airlines and British Airways Raises Competition Concerns and Public Interest Issues (GAO-02-293R). 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

Roberts, E. M. (2006). Whose Books Get Published?: Individual Agency and the Business of Children’s Publishing [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Bowley, G. (2016, October 18). Master of Trades, if Not Art, Says He Was Duped. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ganem, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Ganem, 2001; Rout & Callaway, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rout & Callaway, 2009)
Three authors: (Broza et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Eschner et al., 2001)

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