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

Aldhous P (2000) Global warming could be bad news for Arctic ozone layer. Nature 404:531

A journal article with 2 authors

Hom EFY, Murray AW (2014) Plant-fungal ecology. Niche engineering demonstrates a latent capacity for fungal-algal mutualism. Science 345:94–98

A journal article with 3 authors

Catrysse PB, Liu V, Fan S (2014) Complete power concentration into a single waveguide in large-scale waveguide array lenses. Sci Rep 4:6635

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim J-H, Ko Y-H, Gong S-H, et al (2013) Ultrafast single photon emitting quantum photonic structures based on a nano-obelisk. Sci Rep 3:2150

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Narang RK (2013) Inside the Black Box. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cervesato I, Veith H, Voronkov A (eds) (2008) Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning: 15th International Conference, LPAR 2008, Doha, Qatar, November 22-27, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

DoVale JC, Fritsche-Neto R (2015) Root Phenomics. In: Fritsche-Neto R, Borém A (eds) Phenomics: How Next-Generation Phenotyping is Revolutionizing Plant Breeding. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 49–66

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) New International Climate Chief Faces A Serious Communication Challenge. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-international-climate-chief-faces-serious-communication-challenge/. 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 (2010) Higher Education: Stronger Federal Oversight Needed to Enforce Ban on Incentive Payments to School Recruiters. 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

Russo RA (2009) Using a socio -cultural framework to evaluate farmland preservation policy success in Maryland. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Wagner J (2017) Mets Fix Duda’s Swing, With Help From an Angel. New York Times B15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aldhous 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Aldhous 2000; Hom and Murray 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hom and Murray 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2013)

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