How to format your references using the The Journal of the Economics of Ageing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of the Economics of Ageing. 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

Erickson, C.L., 2000. An artificial landscape-scale fishery in the Bolivian Amazon. Nature 408, 190–193.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ryan, R.J.H., Bernstein, B.E., 2012. Molecular biology. Genetic events that shape the cancer epigenome. Science 336, 1513–1514.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prajeesh, A.G., Ashok, K., Rao, D.V.B., 2013. Falling monsoon depression frequency: a Gray-Sikka conditions perspective. Sci. Rep. 3, 2989.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ding, B., Soblosky, L., Nguyen, K., Geng, J., Yu, X., Ramamoorthy, A., Chen, Z., 2013. Physiologically-relevant modes of membrane interactions by the human antimicrobial peptide, LL-37, revealed by SFG experiments. Sci. Rep. 3, 1854.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

S. Bagotsky, V., M. Skundin, A., M. Volfkovich, Y., 2014. Electrochemical Power Sources. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gallud, J.A., Tesoriero, R., Penichet, V.M.R. (Eds.), 2011. Distributed User Interfaces: Designing Interfaces for the Distributed Ecosystem, Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Katz, M., Shaikovsky, I., 2011. Getting Started with Rich Components, in: Shaikovsky, I. (Ed.), Practical RichFaces. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp. 85–94.

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 Journal of the Economics of Ageing.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Dark Coloration Might Help Birds Survive On Smaller Islands [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dark-coloration-might-help-birds-survive-smaller-islands/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2006. Financial Literacy and Education Commission: Further Progress Needed to Ensure an Effective National Strategy (No. GAO-07-100). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dunn, D.N., 2015. Non-Athlete Students’ Attitudes toward Student-Athletes: A Social Identity Approach (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Forsythe, M., 2017. A Missing Tycoon’s Links to Dalian Wanda, China’s Troubled Conglomerate. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Erickson, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Erickson, 2000; Ryan and Bernstein, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Ryan and Bernstein, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Ding et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Ageing
ISSN (print)	2212-828X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Life-span and Life-course Studies