How to format your references using the AGE citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AGE. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Rangel TF (2012) Ecology. Amazonian extinction debts. Science 337:162–163

A journal article with 2 authors

Silver PG, Holt WE (2002) The mantle flow field beneath western North America. Science 295:1054–1057

A journal article with 3 authors

Rubin KH, Fletcher CH 3rd, Sherman C (2000) Fossiliferous Lana’i deposits formed by multiple events rather than a single giant tsunami. Nature 408:675–681

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jiang L, Zhao Z, Menke DM, Rizzo KA (2014) Correlation of BAG-3 and heat shock protein 70 with CD30 expression in T-cell lymphomas. Sci Rep 4:3952

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bass F (2013) Guide to the Census. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Laron Z, Kopchick J (eds) (2011) Laron Syndrome - From Man to Mouse: Lessons from Clinical and Experimental Experience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Onay-Besikci A (2014) Substrate Metabolism in the Diabetic Heart. In: Turan B, Dhalla NS (eds) Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms. Springer, New York, NY, pp 65–76

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 AGE.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Computer Program Reconstructed Dinosaur Locomotion. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/computer-program-reconstructed-dinosaur-locomotion/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1999) Federal Communications Commission: Review of the Commission’s Regulations Governing Attribution Ownership Rule. 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

French DC (2012) A Case against E-Waste: Where One Country’s Trash is (Not) Another Country’s Treasure: Developing National E-Waste Legislation to Regulate E-Waste Exportation. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Greenhouse L (2008) Justices Block New Hearing for Mexican. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rangel 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Silver and Holt 2002; Rangel 2012).

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

Two authors: (Silver and Holt 2002)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	AGE
Abbreviation	Age (Dordr.)
ISSN (print)	0161-9152
ISSN (online)	1574-4647
Scope	Ageing General Medicine Geriatrics and Gerontology