How to format your references using the Ageing Research Reviews citation style

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

Khodakhah, K., 2015. Neuroscience: Decrypting a brain enigma. Nature 526, 326–327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trakhtenberg, E.F., Goldberg, J.L., 2011. Immunology. Neuroimmune communication. Science 334, 47–48.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cacchione, D.A., Pratson, L.F., Ogston, A.S., 2002. The shaping of continental slopes by internal tides. Science 296, 724–727.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Orphan, V.J., House, C.H., Hinrichs, K.U., McKeegan, K.D., DeLong, E.F., 2001. Methane-consuming archaea revealed by directly coupled isotopic and phylogenetic analysis. Science 293, 484–487.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barker, P., Chang, J., 2013. Basic Family Therapy. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Mavronicolas, M., Papadopoulou, V.G. (Eds.), 2009. Algorithmic Game Theory: Second International Symposium, SAGT 2009, Paphos, Cyprus, October 18-20, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Mills, J., Parry, G., Purchase, V., 2011. Towards Understanding the Value of the Client’s Aspirations and Fears in Complex, Long-term Service Contracts, in: Ng, I., Parry, G., Wild, P., McFarlane, D., Tasker, P. (Eds.), Complex Engineering Service Systems: Concepts and Research, Decision Engineering. Springer, London, pp. 87–103.

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 Research Reviews.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. SpaceX Launches And Lands A Rocket For The First Time In Five Months [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-launches-and-lands-rocket-for-first-time-in-five-months/ (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, 1987. Bilingual Education: A New Look at the Research Evidence (No. PEMD-87-12BR). 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

Henderson, M.M., 2013. Coming to Terms: Career Development Experiences of NCAA Division I Female Student-Athletes in Transition (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Barboza, D., 2017. Chinese Group Reveals Shift Of Ownership To Foundation. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Khodakhah, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Khodakhah, 2015; Trakhtenberg and Goldberg, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Trakhtenberg and Goldberg, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Orphan et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ageing Research Reviews
Abbreviation	Ageing Res. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1568-1637
Scope	Ageing Biochemistry Biotechnology Molecular Biology Neurology