How to format your references using the Electronic Journal of Statistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Electronic Journal of 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

[1]

Tammann, G. A. (2010). Allan Sandage (1926-2010). Nature 468 898.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fauci, A. S. and Collins, F. S. (2012). Benefits and risks of influenza research: lessons learned. Science 336 1522–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Melchor, R. N., Buchwaldt, R. and Bowring, S. (2013). A Late Eocene date for Late Triassic bird tracks. Nature 495 E1-2.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Shen, S.-Z., Crowley, J. L., Wang, Y., Bowring, S. A., Erwin, D. H., Sadler, P. M., Cao, C.-Q., Rothman, D. H., Henderson, C. M., Ramezani, J., Zhang, H., Shen, Y., Wang, X.-D., Wang, W., Mu, L., Li, W.-Z., Tang, Y.-G., Liu, X.-L., Liu, L.-J., Zeng, Y., Jiang, Y.-F. and Jin, Y.-G. (2011). Calibrating the end-Permian mass extinction. Science 334 1367–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hackshaw, A. (2014). A Concise Guide to Observational Studies in Healthcare. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Turner, D. A. (2011). Quality in Higher Education. vol 10 SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Böcking, T. and Gooding, J. J. (2007). Biomimetic Membranes in Biosensor Applications. In Nanobiotechnology of Biomimetic Membranes Fundamental Biomedical Technologies (D. K. Martin, ed) pp 127–66. Springer US, Boston, MA.

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 Electronic Journal of Statistics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E. (2015). Are We Ready For A Test That Could ‘Pre-Diagnose’ Autism In Babies?IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-we-ready-test-could-pre-diagnose-autism-babies/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. (1989). Space Funding: NASA and DOD Activities for Fiscal Years 1981 Through 1989. 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

[1]

Geiselman, C. K. (2010). Diet and reproduction of sympatric nectar-feeding bat species (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in French Guiana. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

[1]

Gavin, J. (2016). Even at 94, Brazil’s Grande Dame of the Stage Can’t Stop Singing. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Electronic Journal of Statistics
ISSN (online)	1935-7524
Scope