How to format your references using the The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy. 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. Godfray HCJ Jr. Linnaeus in the information age. Nature. 2007;446(7133):259–260.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Orsini A, Falconi C. Real-time monitoring of the solution growth of ZnO nanorods arrays by quartz microbalances and in-situ temperature sensors. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6285.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hembacher S, Giessibl FJ, Mannhart J. Force microscopy with light-atom probes. Science. 2004;305(5682):380–383.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. McGee AW, Yang Y, Fischer QS, et al. Experience-driven plasticity of visual cortex limited by myelin and Nogo receptor. Science. 2005;309(5744):2222–2226.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bragg SM. Running an Effective Investor Relations Department. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Segalini A ed. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows (ICJWSF2015). Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Morandi C, Rolando A, Di Vita S. Looking at the Future? In: Rolando A, Di Vita S, eds. From Smart City to Smart Region: Digital Services for an Internet of Places. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016:93–103.

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 The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Chelyabinsk Meteorite Was The Result of Asteroid Collision. IFLScience. 2014. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/chelyabinsk-meteorite-was-result-asteroid-collision/. 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

1. Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Moreau GA. Touch and psychotherapy: A journey to the depths of the unconscious and back again. 2009.

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. Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2017:MM18.

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	The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy
ISSN (print)	1543-5946
ISSN (online)	1876-7761
Scope