How to format your references using the AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis. 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

Shetty, P.: The numbers game. Nature. 484, S14-5 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Gómez, F.J., Waymouth, R.M.: Polymer synthesis. Catalysts rise to the challenge. Science. 295, 635–636 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Walsh, K.J., Richardson, D.C., Michel, P.: Rotational breakup as the origin of small binary asteroids. Nature. 454, 188–191 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Blilou, I., Xu, J., Wildwater, M., Willemsen, V., Paponov, I., Friml, J., Heidstra, R., Aida, M., Palme, K., Scheres, B.: The PIN auxin efflux facilitator network controls growth and patterning in Arabidopsis roots. Nature. 433, 39–44 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baldi, P., Frasconi, P., Smyth, P.: Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2002)

An edited book

Mohapatra, R.N., Giri, D., Saxena, P.K., Srivastava, P.D. eds: Mathematics and Computing 2013: International Conference in Haldia, India. Springer India, New Delhi (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Alfonso-Faus, A.: A QUANTUM APPROACH TO COSMOLOGY. In: Sidharth, B.G., Honsell, F., and de Angelis, A. (eds.) Frontiers of Fundamental Physics: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium “Frontiers of Fundamental and Computational Physics”, Udine, Italy, 26–29 September 2004. pp. 31–35. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2006)

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 AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: How Volkswagen Got Caught Cheating Emissions Tests By A Clean Air NGO, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-volkswagen-got-caught-cheating-emissions-tests-clean-air-ngo/

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: Information Technology: Census Bureau Testing of 2010 Decennial Systems Can Be Strengthened. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2009)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Shetter, R.M.: Assaulting the littorals: The development and evolution of a dedicated American amphibious assault force, (2012)

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

Walsh, M.W.: In Budget Crisis, States Take Aim At Pension Costs, (2010)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shetty 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gómez and Waymouth 2002; Shetty 2012).

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

Two authors: (Gómez and Waymouth 2002)
Three or more authors: (Blilou et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis
Abbreviation	Adv. Stat. Anal.
ISSN (print)	1863-8171
ISSN (online)	1863-818X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Analysis Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation Statistics and Probability Social Sciences (miscellaneous)