How to format your references using the Translational Medicine of Aging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Translational Medicine of 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	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]

J. Emsley, Good news is no news, Nature. 413 (2001) 113.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Scheuring, J.N. Sturgis, Chromatic adaptation of photosynthetic membranes, Science. 309 (2005) 484–487.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Roselló-Díez, M.A. Ros, M. Torres, Diffusible signals, not autonomous mechanisms, determine the main proximodistal limb subdivision, Science. 332 (2011) 1086–1088.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Mori, M.H. Abegg, B.H. Gähwiler, U. Gerber, A frequency-dependent switch from inhibition to excitation in a hippocampal unitary circuit, Nature. 431 (2004) 453–456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F.C. Knopf, Modeling, Analysis and Optimization of Process and Energy Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

X. Luo, J.X. Yu, Z. Li, eds., Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 10th International Conference, ADMA 2014, Guilin, China, December 19-21, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Han, S. Saxena, Algorithms for Testing Length Four Permutations, in: M. Fellows, X. Tan, B. Zhu (Eds.), Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: Third Joint International Conference, FAW-AAIM 2013, Dalian, China, June 26-28, 2013. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 17–23.

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 Translational Medicine of Aging.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, NASA Hosting Asteroid Hunting Contest, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-hosting-asteroid-hunting-contest/ (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]

Government Accountability Office, FAA Appropriation Issues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.H. Piper, A Study of the Effectiveness of Alternative Schools through an Examination of Graduation Rates, School Climate, Student Motivation, and Academic Rigor, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 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]

J. Wihbey, M. Beaudet, Financial Disclosure, Wrapped in Secrecy, New York Times. (2016) A23.

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	Translational Medicine of Aging
ISSN (print)	2468-5011
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