How to format your references using the The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. 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

Alan Stern S. The evolution of comets in the Oort cloud and Kuiper belt. Nature. 2003;424(6949):639-642.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cuffey KM, Marshall SJ. Substantial contribution to sea-level rise during the last interglacial from the Greenland ice sheet. Nature. 2000;404(6778):591-594.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eremtchenko M, Schaefer JA, Tautz FS. Understanding and tuning the epitaxy of large aromatic adsorbates by molecular design. Nature. 2003;425(6958):602-605.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Božin ES, Knox KR, Juhás P, Hor YS, Mitchell JF, Billinge SJL. Cu(Ir₁ - xCrx)₂S₄: a model system for studying nanoscale phase coexistence at the metal-insulator transition. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4081.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stokes DJ. Principles and Practice of Variable Pressure/Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (VP-ESEM). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008. ISBN:9780470758731.

An edited book

Kwon T, Lee M-K, Kwon D, eds. Information Security and Cryptology – ICISC 2012: 15th International Conference, Seoul, Korea, November 28-30, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Vol 7839. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. ISBN:9783642376818.

A chapter in an edited book

Chand AN, Yuta S. Field Trial Results of Autonomous Road Crossing Mobile Robot. In: Lee S, Cho H, Yoon K-J, Lee J, eds. Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12: Volume 1 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference IAS-12, Held June 26-29, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013:57-66. ISBN:9783642339257.

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 Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. Surprising Source of Stem Cells Found In Teeth. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/surprising-source-stem-cells-found-teeth/. Published August 1, 2014. 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

Government Accountability Office. Federally Funded Math and Science Materials. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yaceczko SD. A Telehealth Nutrition Manual for an Online Intensive Behavioral Weight Management Program. 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

Brantley B, Morris W. August Wilson: Then. Now. Forever? New York Times. January 11, 2017:AR10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Gerontol. A Biol. Sci. Med. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1079-5006
ISSN (online)	1758-535X
Scope	Ageing Geriatrics and Gerontology