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

Knight RT. 2007. Neuroscience. Neural networks debunk phrenology. Science. 316(5831):1578–79

A journal article with 2 authors

DeVore NM, Scott EE. 2012. Structures of cytochrome P450 17A1 with prostate cancer drugs abiraterone and TOK-001. Nature. 482(7383):116–19

A journal article with 3 authors

Okuwaki R, Yagi Y, Hirano S. 2014. Relationship between high-frequency radiation and asperity ruptures, revealed by hybrid back-projection with a non-planar fault model. Sci. Rep. 4:7120

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Miranda LF, Gómez Y, Anglada G, Torrelles JM. 2001. Water-maser emission from a planetary nebula with a magnetized torus. Nature. 414(6861):284–86

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Casper D. 2011. Hollywood Film 1963-1976. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Tongway DJ. 2011. Restoring Disturbed Landscapes: Putting Principles into Practice. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics. XXII, 192 p. 24 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Vacha-Haase T, Donaldson WV, Foster A. 2014. Race-Ethnicity and Gender in Older Adults. In Handbook of Race-Ethnicity and Gender in Psychology, ed ML Miville, AD Ferguson, pp. 65–83. New York, NY: 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 Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Video: The Amazing Rosetta Spacecraft and Philae Lander. 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. 1993. Tax Systems Modernization: Comments on IRS’ Portion of President’s Request for Fiscal Year 1993 Supplemental Funds. T-IMTEC-93-1, 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

Koyanagi T. 2017. Design and Synthesis of Archaea-Inspired Tetraether Lipids. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of California San Diego

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

Cooper H. 2008. Bush Is Likely to End Term With Iran Issue Unsettled. New York Times, June 21, p. A10

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