How to format your references using the Experimental Gerontology citation style

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

Boden, M., 2007. Obituary: Donald Michie (1923-2007). Nature 448, 765.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sahakian, B., Morein-Zamir, S., 2007. Professor’s little helper. Nature 450, 1157–1159.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gullison, R.E., Rice, R.E., Blundell, A.G., 2000. “Marketing” species conservation. Nature 404, 923–924.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Venken, K.J.T., He, Y., Hoskins, R.A., Bellen, H.J., 2006. P[acman]: a BAC transgenic platform for targeted insertion of large DNA fragments in D. melanogaster. Science 314, 1747–1751.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Free, M.L., 2015. CBT and Christianity. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Robinson, L., Jr. (Ed.), 2015. Marketing Dynamism & Sustainability: Things Change, Things Stay the Same…: Proceedings of the 2012 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Burton, B., Lepp, M., Morrison, M., O’Toole, J., 2015. From DRACON to Cooling Conflict, in: Lepp, M., Morrison, M., O’Toole, J. (Eds.), Acting to Manage Conflict and Bullying Through Evidence-Based Strategies. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 37–57.

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 Experimental Gerontology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. Longest Freshwater Migration Revealed As Catfish Swim Length Of Amazon And Back [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1998. Family Planning: Federal Funds Provided to Planned Parenthood Organizations (No. HEHS-98-171R). 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

Graves, K.A., 2012. An Exploration of Organizational Commitment among Generation X Leaders (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Sweeney-James, K.A., 2017. Remembering Nana. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boden, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Boden, 2007; Sahakian and Morein-Zamir, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Sahakian and Morein-Zamir, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Venken et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental Gerontology
Abbreviation	Exp. Gerontol.
ISSN (print)	0531-5565
Scope	Ageing Biochemistry Cell Biology Endocrinology Genetics Molecular Biology