How to format your references using the The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy. 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. Kaiser D. The search for clean cash. Nature. 2011;472(7341):30–31.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rai AK, Cook-Deegan R. Genetics. Moving beyond “isolated” gene patents. Science. 2013;341(6142):137–138.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Carbotte SM, Small C, Donnelly K. The influence of ridge migration on the magmatic segmentation of mid-ocean ridges. Nature. 2004;429(6993):743–746.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Lee J, Natarajan M, Nashine VC, et al. Surface sites for engineering allosteric control in proteins. Science. 2008;322(5900):438–442.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. von Eye A, Mun E-Y. Log-Linear Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Yen MT ed. Vascular Lesions of the Orbit and Face: Imaging and Management. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mazlan D, Abdul Awal ASM. Mechanical Properties of Cement Composites Incorporating Oil Palm Stem Fiber. In: Hassan R, Yusoff M, Ismail Z, et al., eds. InCIEC 2013: Proceedings of the International Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Conference 2013. Singapore: Springer; 2014:51–60.

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 The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. Cassini Just Took Some Stunning New Images Of Clouds On Titan. IFLScience. 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-just-took-some-stunning-new-images-of-clouds-on-titan/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Review of the State of Ohio’s Fiscal Year 1975 State Plan for the Education of Handicapped Children. Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bavkar IN. In-Node Vehicle Classification and Identification. 2017.

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. Sisario B. The ‘Coolest Man’ Heads to the Library. New York Times. 2017:C21.

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	The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy
ISSN (print)	1543-5946
ISSN (online)	1876-7761
Scope