How to format your references using the Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Putterman, S. (2008). A physicist links magnetism, force and fatigue. Nature, 454(7202), 257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dobson, D. P., & Brodholt, J. P. (2005). Subducted banded iron formations as a source of ultralow-velocity zones at the core-mantle boundary. Nature, 434(7031), 371–374.

A journal article with 3 authors

Branch, T. A., Hively, D. J., & Hilborn, R. (2013). Is the ocean food provision index biased? Nature, 495(7442), E5-6; discussion E7.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Choi, W. J., Chung, Y. J., Kim, Y. H., Han, J., Lee, Y.-K., Kong, K.-J., et al. (2014). Drawing circuits with carbon nanotubes: scratch-induced graphoepitaxial growth of carbon nanotubes on amorphous silicon oxide substrates. Scientific reports, 4, 5289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

King, A. M. (2011). Internal Control of Fixed Assets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang, Z. (2015). Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks. (W. Zhang, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Jorge, M. L. C., & Pardo, T. A. S. (2010). Formalizing CST-Based Content Selection Operations. In T. A. S. Pardo, A. Branco, A. Klautau, R. Vieira, & V. L. S. de Lima (Eds.), Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language: 9th International Conference, PROPOR 2010, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, April 27-30, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 25–29). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 5). 2014, The Year That Was: Health + Medicine. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/2014-year-was-health-medicine/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2003). DOD Business Systems Modernization: Important Progress Made to Develop Business Enterprise Architecture, but Much Work Remains (No. GAO-03-1018). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Portwood, B. (2017). Inclusive Special and General Education Secondary Teachers’ Attitudes towards the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in the General Education Setting (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Erdbrink, T. (2017, June 8). As Toll Rises, Iran Says ISIS Recruited Attackers From Within Country. New York Times, p. A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Putterman 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Dobson and Brodholt 2005; Putterman 2008).

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

Two authors: (Dobson and Brodholt 2005)
Three or more authors: (Choi et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Abbreviation	Ann. Inst. Stat. Math.
ISSN (print)	0020-3157
ISSN (online)	1572-9052
Scope	Statistics and Probability