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

Willems, P. A. (2009). The biofuels landscape through the lens of industrial chemistry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5941), 707–708.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poole, A., & Penny, D. (2007). Eukaryote evolution: engulfed by speculation. Nature, 447(7147), 913.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tomioka, K., Yoshimura, M., & Fukui, T. (2012). A III-V nanowire channel on silicon for high-performance vertical transistors. Nature, 488(7410), 189–192.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bleul, C. C., Corbeaux, T., Reuter, A., Fisch, P., Mönting, J. S., & Boehm, T. (2006). Formation of a functional thymus initiated by a postnatal epithelial progenitor cell. Nature, 441(7096), 992–996.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nellist, J. G. (2005). Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kollias, S., Stafylopatis, A., Duch, W., & Oja, E. (Eds.). (2006). Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2006: 16th International Conference, Athens, Greece, September 10-14, 2006. Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 4132). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Stafford, C. (2016). Confronting “The Conditions” of Sénégalese Higher Education: Reframing Representation and Activism. In J. G. DeJaeghere, J. Josić, & K. S. McCleary (Eds.), Education and Youth Agency: Qualitative Case Studies in Global Contexts (pp. 65–82). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Luntz, S. (2014, October 11). New Subatomic Particle Offers Strong Insights. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-subatomic-particle-offers-strong-insights0/. 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. (1991). High-Performance Computing: Industry Uses of Supercomputers and High-Speed Networks (No. IMTEC-91-58). 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

Dillon, K. S. (2009). Social support to families of children with special needs: A grant (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

Kelly, M. (1993, March 13). Hillary Clinton Health Panel Hears the People, Invitation Only. New York Times, p. 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Willems 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Poole and Penny 2007; Willems 2009).

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

Two authors: (Poole and Penny 2007)
Three or more authors: (Bleul et al. 2006)

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

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