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

Pasquale, E.B.: Journal club. A biologist is gratified to find reconciliation for a conflicted receptor. Nature. 461, 149 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Dunn, R.A., Martinez, F.: Contrasting crustal production and rapid mantle transitions beneath back-arc ridges. Nature. 469, 198–202 (2011)

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, S.P., Jones, C., Stasch, A.: Stable magnesium(I) compounds with Mg-Mg bonds. Science. 318, 1754–1757 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Drescher, M., Hentschel, M., Kienberger, R., Tempea, G., Spielmann, C., Reider, G.A., Corkum, P.B., Krausz, F.: X-ray pulses approaching the attosecond frontier. Science. 291, 1923–1927 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allan, D., Bragg, N.: 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging Design and Evolution. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2012)

An edited book

Engelken-Jorge, M., Güell, P.I., del Río, C.M. eds: Politics and Emotions: The Obama Phenomenon. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Sánchez-Lozano, J.M., García-Cascales, M.S., Lamata, M.T.: Decision Criteria for Optimal Location of Solar Plants: Photovoltaic and Thermoelectric. In: Cavallaro, F. (ed.) Assessment and Simulation Tools for Sustainable Energy Systems: Theory and Applications. pp. 79–91. Springer, London (2013)

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

Fang, J.: Toxin Resistance Suggests That Evolution Can Be Predictable, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/toxin-resistance-suggests-evolution-can-be-predictable/

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: Space Station: Program Instability and Cost Growth Continue Pending Redesign. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1993)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marmolejo, R.: Drop-in center for homeless veteran families: A grant proposal, (2013)

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

Brantley, B.: Sam Shepard, Whose Plays Forged a New Frontier, Dies at 73, (2017)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pasquale 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Dunn and Martinez 2011; Pasquale 2009).

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

Two authors: (Dunn and Martinez 2011)
Three or more authors: (Drescher et al. 2001)

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)