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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Gershon D (2004) Cell signalling: making connections. Nature 432:243–249

A journal article with 2 authors

Deane GB, Stokes MD (2002) Scale dependence of bubble creation mechanisms in breaking waves. Nature 418:839–844

A journal article with 3 authors

Lönnstedt OM, McCormick MI, Chivers DP (2013) Predator-induced changes in the growth of eyes and false eyespots. Sci Rep 3:2259

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kachroo A, Schopfer CR, Nasrallah ME, Nasrallah JB (2001) Allele-specific receptor-ligand interactions in Brassica self-incompatibility. Science 293:1824–1826

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chu PP (2008) FPGA Prototyping by Verilog Examples. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Zajda J, Freeman K, Geo-Jaja M, et al (eds) (2005) International Handbook on Globalisation, Education and Policy Research: Global Pedagogies and Policies. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Csendes T (2009) Interval analysis and verification of mathematical models. In: Baveye PC, Laba M, Mysiak J (eds) Uncertainties in Environmental Modelling and Consequences for Policy Making. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 79–100

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

O`Callaghan J (2017) This Zip Line Will Take Astronauts To Safety If Something Goes Wrong With Their Rocket. In: IFLScience. 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 (1989) Transportation: Bibliography of GAO Documents, January 1985-December 1988. 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

Benware A (2017) The Roles of Teaching Experience and Authoritative Classroom Management Style on Student Discipline. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Nixon R, Shear MD (2017) Square-Jawed General Has New Mission: Restore Order to West Wing. New York Times A11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Deane and Stokes 2002; Gershon 2004).

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

Two authors: (Deane and Stokes 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kachroo et al. 2001)

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