How to format your references using the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 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

Weatherall DJ. 2003. Genomics and global health: time for a reappraisal. Science. 302(5645):597–99

A journal article with 2 authors

Prescott ED, Julius D. 2003. A modular PIP2 binding site as a determinant of capsaicin receptor sensitivity. Science. 300(5623):1284–88

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson KS, Riser SC, Karl DM. 2010. Nitrate supply from deep to near-surface waters of the North Pacific subtropical gyre. Nature. 465(7301):1062–65

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lu B, Roegiers F, Jan LY, Jan YN. 2001. Adherens junctions inhibit asymmetric division in the Drosophila epithelium. Nature. 409(6819):522–25

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Denison E, Ren GY. 2014. Luke Him Sau Architect. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Köbler U. 2010. Renormalization Group Theory: Impact on Experimental Magnetism, Vol. 127. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XIII, 394 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu P, Li R, Xu Z. 2016. THz Waveforms and Polarization from Laser Induced Plasmas by Few-Cycle Pulses. In Laser Filamentation: Mathematical Methods and Models, ed AD Bandrauk, E Lorin, JV Moloney, pp. 97–120. 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 Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. What Medicines Would We Pack For A Trip To Mars? IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2005. Information Technology: HHS Has Several Investment Management Capabilities in Place, but Needs to Address Key Weaknesses. GAO-06-11, 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

Anemaet WK. 2008. The effects of non -surgical interventions on osteoarthritis-like changes in the mouse knee. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of South Florida

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

Schwartz J. 2017. You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain. New York Times, Aug. 4, p. ED6

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Stat. Appl.
ISSN (print)	2326-8298
ISSN (online)	2326-831X
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Statistics and Probability