How to format your references using the Computational Statistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Statistics. 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

Miyamoto K (2014) Structural model of ubiquitin transfer onto an artificial RING finger as an E3 ligase. Sci Rep 4:6574

A journal article with 2 authors

Rockström J, Falkenmark M (2015) Agriculture: increase water harvesting in Africa. Nature 519:283–285

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhandawat V, Reisert J, Yau K-W (2005) Elementary response of olfactory receptor neurons to odorants. Science 308:1931–1934

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yu L, Zhang Y, Zhang B, Liu J (2014) Enhanced antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles/halloysite nanotubes/graphene nanocomposites with sandwich-like structure. Sci Rep 4:4551

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray KA, Paschkewitz JJ (2016) Next Generation HALT and HASS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bourassa MG, Tardif J-C (eds) (2006) Antioxidants and Cardiovascular Disease, Second Edition. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Martins VF, Kirner TG, Kirner C (2015) Subjective Usability Evaluation Criteria of Augmented Reality Applications. In: Shumaker R, Lackey S (eds) Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: 7th International Conference, VAMR 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 39–48

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.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Astronomers Detect Mysterious Signal 240 Million Light-Years From Earth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-detect-mysterious-signal-240-million-light-years-earth/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1990) Airline Deregulation: Trends in Airfares at Airports in Small and Medium-Sized Communities. 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

Alexander M (2009) Reasoning processes used by paramedics to solve clinical problems. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

de la MERCED MJ (2017) Investors Give $90 Million To a Flying Car Start-Up. New York Times B2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miyamoto 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Miyamoto 2014; Rockström and Falkenmark 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rockström and Falkenmark 2015)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational Statistics
Abbreviation	Comput. Stat.
ISSN (print)	0943-4062
ISSN (online)	1613-9658
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Computational Mathematics Statistics and Probability