How to format your references using the Aging Health citation style

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

Elser JJ. Geochemistry. A world awash with nitrogen. Science. 334(6062), 1504–1505 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

McCalley CK, Sparks JP. Abiotic gas formation drives nitrogen loss from a desert ecosystem. Science. 326(5954), 837–840 (2009).

A journal article with 3 authors

Stevens RC, Yokoyama S, Wilson IA. Global efforts in structural genomics. Science. 294(5540), 89–92 (2001).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sawamura M, Kawai K, Matsuo Y, Kanie K, Kato T, Nakamura E. Stacking of conical molecules with a fullerene apex into polar columns in crystals and liquid crystals. Nature. 419(6908), 702–705 (2002).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin WC. Wave Propagation in Drilling, Well Logging and Reservoir Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Khan SU, Zomaya AY, editors. Handbook on Data Centers. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Xiong N, Funk P. Towards a Probabilistic Method for Longitudinal Monitoring in Health Care. In: Internet of Things Technologies for HealthCare: Third International Conference, HealthyIoT 2016, Västerås, Sweden, October 18-19, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Ahmed MU, Begum S, Raad W (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 30–35 (2016).

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 Health.

Blog post

Davis J. Japan Accused Of Falsifying Historical Whaling Data [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/japan-accused-falsifying-whaling-data/.

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. Commercial Space Transportation: Industry Trends and Key Issues Affecting Federal Oversight and International Competitiveness. 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

Martinez NM. The influence of formal and informal support on the quality of life of individuals with a severe mental illness. (2010).

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

Williams J. Chatting With Bowie. New York Times, BR4 (2016).

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	Aging Health
Abbreviation	Aging health
ISSN (print)	1745-509X
ISSN (online)	1745-5103
Scope	General Medicine Geriatrics and Gerontology