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

Kher U. 2010. A call for collaboration. Nature. 466(7304):S21-2

A journal article with 2 authors

Garrott RA, Oli MK. 2013. Conservation. A critical crossroad for BLM’s wild horse program. Science. 341(6148):847–48

A journal article with 3 authors

Ribeiro B, Perra N, Baronchelli A. 2013. Quantifying the effect of temporal resolution on time-varying networks. Sci. Rep. 3:3006

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Deutman ABC, Monnereau C, Elemans JAAW, Ercolani G, Nolte RJM, Rowan AE. 2008. Mechanism of threading a polymer through a macrocyclic ring. Science. 322(5908):1668–71

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nash J. 2013. Diabetes and Wellbeing. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Aboh EO, Essegbey J, eds. 2010. Topics in Kwa Syntax, Vol. 78. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. XVIII, 237 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Dave B. 2005. Labyrinthine Digital Histories. In Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2005: Proceedings of the 11th International CAAD Futures Conference held at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, on June 20–22, 2005, ed B Martens, A Brown, pp. 53–62. 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 Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.

Blog post

Taub B. 2016. The Primate Brain Is Wired To Handle Any Situation Life Throws At It, Study Suggests. IFLScience

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. 1976. Status of Federal and Private Research and Development Efforts To Conserve Energy by Reducing Electric Power Transmission Losses. RED-76-107, 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

Martinez C. 2010. An after-school program at the middle school level for at-risk youth. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

(nyt) SK. 2002. World Briefing | Europe: Estonia: New Prime Minister. New York Times, Jan. 23, p. A7

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

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