How to format your references using the Computational Statistics and Data Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Statistics and Data 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	Download the output style file
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

Owen, J., 2015. Nanocrystal structure. The coordination chemistry of nanocrystal surfaces. Science 347, 615–616.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gilman, S.L., Glaze, F.E., 2005. History of science. “How science survived”--medieval manuscripts as fossils. Science 307, 1208–1209.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu, Z.-X., Lan, H., Ji, W., 2014. Role of the dispersion force in modeling the interfacial properties of molecule-metal interfaces: adsorption of thiophene on copper surfaces. Sci. Rep. 4, 5036.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hoffman, N., Knauth, L.P., Klonowski, S., Burt, D., Saunders, R.S., Zurek, R.W., Doran, P.T., Forman, S.L., 2000. Ideas about the surface runoff features on Mars. Science 290, 711c–4c.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boeker, E., Van Grondelle, R., 2011. Environmental Physics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bernardini, A., 2010. Bounding Uncertainty in Civil Engineering: Theoretical Background. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bowman, C.C., 2012. Food Allergies, in: Dietert, R.R., Luebke, R.W. (Eds.), Immunotoxicity, Immune Dysfunction, and Chronic Disease, Molecular and Integrative Toxicology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 127–149.

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 Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Stephen Hawking Says We Should Be “Wary” About Contacting Aliens [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/stephen-hawking-says-we-should-be-wary-about-contacting-aliens/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Aircraft Certification: New FAA Approach Needed to Meet Challenges of Advanced Technology (No. RCED-93-155). 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

Sefrit, J., 2008. A study of the effectiveness of a school district’s mentoring /professional development plan for beginning teachers (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Rothenberg, B., 2017. Dueling Frenchwomen Show Signs of a Thaw After Their Chilly Match. New York Times B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Owen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gilman and Glaze, 2005; Owen, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gilman and Glaze, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Hoffman et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Abbreviation	Comput. Stat. Data Anal.
ISSN (print)	0167-9473
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Statistics and Probability