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

Bard, E. (2001). Paleoclimate. Extending the calibrated radiocarbon record. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5526), 2443–2444.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wenseleers, T., & Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2006). Enforced altruism in insect societies. Nature, 444(7115), 50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Day, J. M. D., Pearson, D. G., & Taylor, L. A. (2007). Highly siderophile element constraints on accretion and differentiation of the Earth-Moon system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5809), 217–219.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ding, J., Tian, T., Meng, Q., Guo, Z., Li, W., Zhang, P., et al. (2013). Smart multifunctional fluids for lithium ion batteries: enhanced rate performance and intrinsic mechanical protection. Scientific reports, 3, 2485.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kenny, T. (2014). The Nuts and Bolts of Implantable Device Therapy Pacemakers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kokhanovsky, A. A., & Leeuw, G. de (Eds.). (2009). Satellite Aerosol Remote Sensing over Land. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ata, A. (2009). Novel Bioactive Natural Products from Marine and Terrestrial Sources. In B. Şener (Ed.), Innovations in Chemical Biology (pp. 51–60). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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, May 5). Whale Nerves Can Stretch To Double Original Size. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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). Federal-Aid Highways: Cost and Oversight of Major Highway and Bridge Projects--Issues and Options (No. GAO-03-764T). 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

Kalavacherla, R. S. (2017). DFT study of the improved performance of oxygen reduction reaction on gold-copper alloy in a PEM fuel cell (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, August 7). A Measure Of Progress And Limits For Women. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bard 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Bard 2001; Wenseleers and Ratnieks 2006).

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

Two authors: (Wenseleers and Ratnieks 2006)
Three or more authors: (Ding et al. 2013)

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