How to format your references using the Aging Cell citation style

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

Gewin V (2002) Poor nations seek new biodiversity deal. Nature 415, 949.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hirose T & Horvitz HR (2013) An Sp1 transcription factor coordinates caspase-dependent and -independent apoptotic pathways. Nature 500, 354–358.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu B, Parquette JR & RajanBabu TV (2009) Regiodivergent ring opening of chiral aziridines. Science 326, 1662.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huang W, Ma K, Zhang J, Qatanani M, Cuvillier J, Liu J, Dong B, Huang X & Moore DD (2006) Nuclear receptor-dependent bile acid signaling is required for normal liver regeneration. Science 312, 233–236.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hamad WY (2017) Cellulose Nanocrystals, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Vries MJ de, Gumaelius L & Skogh I-B eds. (2016) Pre-university Engineering Education, Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Rischpater R & Zucker D (2010) Doing More with Qt. In D. Zucker, ed. Beginning Nokia Apps Development: Qt and HTML5 for Symbian and MeeGo. Berkeley, CA: Apress, pp.87–137.

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 Aging Cell.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) This Plug-In Lets You See How Much Information Facebook Has On You. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-plug-in-lets-you-see-how-much-information-facebook-has-on-you/ [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 (2007) Motor Carrier Safety: A Statistical Approach Will Better Identify Commercial Carriers That Pose High Crash Risks Than Does the Current Federal Approach, 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

Maranhao B (2015) Efficient identification of disease causative mutations with next generation sequencing technologies. Doctoral dissertation. La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Dynarski S (2016) America Can Fix Its Student Loan Crisis. Ask Australia. New York Times, BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin 2002; Hirose & Horvitz 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hirose & Horvitz 2013)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aging Cell
Abbreviation	Aging Cell
ISSN (print)	1474-9718
ISSN (online)	1474-9726
Scope	Ageing Cell Biology