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

Butler D (2000) France plans marine research port at Brest. Nature 405:498

A journal article with 2 authors

Grasset EK, Cerutti A (2014) Immunology. Retroviral help for B cells. Science 346:1454–1455

A journal article with 3 authors

Su Z, Huang W, Gu X (2011) Comment on “Positive selection of tyrosine loss in metazoan evolution.” Science 332:917; author reply 917

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bhattacharyya RP, Reményi A, Good MC, et al (2006) The Ste5 scaffold allosterically modulates signaling output of the yeast mating pathway. Science 311:822–826

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bosq D, Blanke D (2007) Inference and Prediction in Large Dimensions: Bosq/Inference and Prediction in Large Dimensions. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Raoprasert T (2010) Designing an Efficient Management System: Modeling of Convergence Factors Exemplified by the Case of Japanese Businesses in Thailand. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hall CR (2015) Pathology of Radiation Effects on Healthy Tissues in the Pelvis. In: Ehrenpreis ED, Marsh R de W, Small W Jr (eds) Radiation Therapy for Pelvic Malignancy and its Consequences. Springer, New York, NY, pp 79–86

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

Andrew E (2015) The Tropical Steam-Engine: How Does El Niño Warm The Entire Globe? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/tropical-steam-engine-how-does-el-ni-o-warm-entire-globe/. 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 (1981) Secret Service Has More Computer Capacity Than It Needs. 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

Grijalva JA (2010) Exploring cultural finance: A phenomenological approach to comparative cultural perceptions of money in Mexico. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by (2005) Arts, Briefly; Russia to Sell a Landmark Studio. New York Times E2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Butler 2000; Grasset and Cerutti 2014).

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

Two authors: (Grasset and Cerutti 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bhattacharyya et al. 2006)

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