How to format your references using the Current Geriatrics Reports citation style

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

1. Hutchinson J. Evolutionary developmental biology: Dynasty of the plastic fish. Nature. 2014;513:37–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Chu S, Majumdar A. Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future. Nature. 2012;488:294–303.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Parker JD, Burkepile DE, Hay ME. Opposing effects of native and exotic herbivores on plant invasions. Science. 2006;311:1459–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pfreundt U, Kopf M, Belkin N, Berman-Frank I, Hess WR. The primary transcriptome of the marine diazotroph Trichodesmium erythraeum IMS101. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6187.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cox C. An Introduction to LTE. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Zhmakin AI, editor. Fundamentals of Cryobiology: Physical Phenomena and Mathematical Models. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pendyala S, Katkoori S. Interval Arithmetic and Self Similarity Based Subthreshold Leakage Optimization in RTL Datapaths. In: Claesen L, Sanz-Pascual M-T, Reis R, Sarmiento-Reyes A, editors. VLSI-SoC: Internet of Things Foundations: 22nd IFIP WG 105/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2014, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, October 6-8, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 75–94.

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 Current Geriatrics Reports.

Blog post

1. Fang J. New Blood Test Forecasts Breast Cancer Risk. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Contributions to the Theory and Practice of Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Aug. Report No.: 094703.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Taylor C. The Crowd [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2011.

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

1. Yablonsky L. Clay Mates. New York Times. 2010 Aug 22;M2160.

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	Current Geriatrics Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Geriatr. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-7865
Scope