How to format your references using the Biogerontology citation style

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

Adam D (2001) Chemistry journal reacts to dispute. Nature 412:669

A journal article with 2 authors

Yurimoto H, Kuramoto K (2004) Molecular cloud origin for the oxygen isotope heterogeneity in the solar system. Science 305:1763–1766

A journal article with 3 authors

Huey RB, Losos JB, Moritz C (2010) Ecology. Are lizards toast? Science 328:832–833

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ji H, Ehrlich LIR, Seita J, et al (2010) Comprehensive methylome map of lineage commitment from haematopoietic progenitors. Nature 467:338–342

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson MD (2016) Great Myths of Intimate Relationships. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kleinaltenkamp M, Plinke W, Geiger I (eds) (2015) Business Relationship Management and Marketing: Mastering Business Markets. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Simmons G (2013) Filovirus Entry. In: Pöhlmann S, Simmons G (eds) Viral Entry into Host Cells. Springer, New York, NY, pp 83–94

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 Biogerontology.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Antibiotic-resistant Microbes Discovered In African Wildlife. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/antibiotic-resistant-microbes-discovered-african-wildlife/. 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 (1995) Weather Forecasting: Radar Availability Requirement Not Being Met. 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

Rehan TY (2016) Analysis of Life-Cycle Cost, Properties, and Field Performance of Parking Lot Pavements. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Chira S, Blaise L (2017) France’s First Lady, a Confidante and Coach, May Reshape an Evolving Role. New York Times A12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adam 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Adam 2001; Yurimoto and Kuramoto 2004).

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

Two authors: (Yurimoto and Kuramoto 2004)
Three or more authors: (Ji et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biogerontology
Abbreviation	Biogerontology
ISSN (print)	1389-5729
ISSN (online)	1573-6768
Scope	Ageing Geriatrics and Gerontology Gerontology