How to format your references using the Ageing International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ageing International. 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

Caldecott, K. W. (2003). Cell signaling. The BRCT domain: signaling with friends? Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5645), 579–580.

A journal article with 2 authors

Prlic, M., & Bevan, M. J. (2006). Immunology. An antibody paradox, resolved. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5769), 1875–1876.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ravi, M., Marimuthu, M. P. A., & Siddiqi, I. (2008). Gamete formation without meiosis in Arabidopsis. Nature, 451(7182), 1121–1124.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Calderaro, A., Arcangeletti, M.-C., Rodighiero, I., Buttrini, M., Gorrini, C., Motta, F., et al. (2014). Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry applied to virus identification. Scientific reports, 4, 6803.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kölle, W. (2009). Wasseranalysen - richtig beurteilt. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Crescenzi, R., & Percoco, M. (Eds.). (2013). Geography, Institutions and Regional Economic Performance. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng, H., & Labahn, G. (2014). A Practical Implementation of a Modular Algorithm for Ore Polynomial Matrices. In R. Feng, W.-S. Lee, & Y. Sato (Eds.), Computer Mathematics: 9th Asian Symposium (ASCM2009), Fukuoka, December 2009, 10th Asian Symposium (ASCM2012), Beijing, October 2012, Contributed Papers and Invited Talks (pp. 49–59). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Ageing International.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 1). Thousands Of These Bizarre Blue Animals Wash Up Along California Shores. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/thousands-these-bizarre-blue-animals-wash-along-california-shores/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1997). District of Columbia Public Schools: School Year 1996-97 Enrollment Count Vulnerable to Errors (No. T-HEHS-98-53). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cole, K. W. (2010). Principal investigator and department administrator perceptions of services provided by Offices of Research Administration at research universities (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Pendleton, I. (1934, March 18). ART AND TASTE IN THE SMALL GARDEN; The Show Is a Busy Short-Course Garden School. New York Times, p. DRAMA SCREEN MUSIC SHOPPERS’ COLUMNS EDUCATION GARDENS RADIO FASHIONS ART THE DANCE HOTELS RESTAURANTSX14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Caldecott 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Caldecott 2003; Prlic and Bevan 2006).

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

Two authors: (Prlic and Bevan 2006)
Three or more authors: (Calderaro et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ageing International
Abbreviation	Ageing Int.
ISSN (print)	0163-5158
ISSN (online)	1936-606X
Scope	Health(social science)