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

Ho, T.-L., 2004. PHYSICS. Arrival of the fermion superfluid. Science 305, 1114–1115.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roediger, H.L., 3rd, McDermott, K.B., 2011. Neuroscience. Remember when? Science 333, 47–48.

A journal article with 3 authors

Inoue, M., Tanimoto, M., Oda, Y., 2013. The role of ear stone size in hair cell acoustic sensory transduction. Sci. Rep. 3, 2114.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, N., Zhang, Q., Gao, S., Song, Q., Huang, R., Wang, L., Liu, L., Dai, J., Tang, M., Cheng, G., 2013. Three-dimensional graphene foam as a biocompatible and conductive scaffold for neural stem cells. Sci. Rep. 3, 1604.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Polushkin, V., 2005. Nuclear Electronics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Alpay, D., Kirstein, B. (Eds.), 2015. Recent Advances in Inverse Scattering, Schur Analysis and Stochastic Processes: A Collection of Papers Dedicated to Lev Sakhnovich, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Stuht, T., Speck, A., Feja, S., Witt, S., Pulvermüller, E., 2012. Rule Determination and Process Verification Using Business Capabilities, in: Sandkuhl, K., Seigerroth, U., Stirna, J. (Eds.), The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: 5th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, PoEM 2012, Rostock, Germany, November 7-8, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 46–60.

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 Journal of the Economics of Ageing.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. This Is What Happens If You Chuck Half A Kilo Of Sodium Into A Lake [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1998. Aviation Competition: Proposed Domestic Airline Alliances Raise Serious Issues (No. T-RCED-98-215). 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

Emenyonu, N.I., 2012. Barriers to HIV care in rural Uganda (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Shpigel, B., 2016. At 8 Feet Tall, He Sat Down and Started Getting Noticed. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ho, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Ho, 2004; Roediger and McDermott, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Roediger and McDermott, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Li 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