How to format your references using the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS). 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

Potrykus, I. (2010), “Regulation must be revolutionized,” Nature, 466, 561.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trimble, S. W., and Crosson, P. (2000), “LAND USE: U.S. Soil Erosion Rates--Myth and Reality,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 289, 248–250.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petersen, J., Volz, J., and Rauschenbeutel, A. (2014), “Nanophotonics. Chiral nanophotonic waveguide interface based on spin-orbit interaction of light,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 346, 67–71.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Müller, M. M., Malinowski, P., Gruber, T., and Hillyard, S. A. (2003), “Sustained division of the attentional spotlight,” Nature, 424, 309–312.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corrigan, P. W., Roe, D., and Tsang, H. W. H. (2011), Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Marra, D. (2016), Models for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems: Exploitation of Models Hierarchy for Industrial Design of Control and Diagnosis Strategies, Green Energy and Technology, (C. Pianese, P. Polverino, and M. Sorrentino, eds.), London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Prokou, E. (2010), “University Reform in Greece: A Shift from Intrinsic to Extrinsic Values,” in Changing Educational Landscapes: Educational Policies, Schooling Systems and Higher Education - a comparative perspective, ed. D. Mattheou, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 59–74.

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 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017), “We Finally Know What Cats’ Facial Expressions Mean,” IFLScience, IFLScience.

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 (1997), Federal Communications Commission: Provision for the Use of the 220-222 MHz Band by Private Land Mobile Radio Service and Final Rule, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

O’Neil, D. M. (2013), “Climate frequencies of the early Holocene from Foy Lake, Montana,” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Johnson, G. (2014), “Seeking Stars, Finding Creationism,” New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Potrykus 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Potrykus 2010; Trimble and Crosson 2000).

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

Two authors: (Trimble and Crosson 2000)
Three or more authors: (Müller et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Graph. Stat.
ISSN (print)	1061-8600
ISSN (online)	1537-2715
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics Statistics and Probability