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

Gomory, R. (2010), “Benoît Mandelbrot (1924-2010),” Nature, 468, 378.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rivera, M. C., and Lake, J. A. (2004), “The ring of life provides evidence for a genome fusion origin of eukaryotes,” Nature, 431, 152–155.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arendt, D., Technau, U., and Wittbrodt, J. (2001), “Evolution of the bilaterian larval foregut,” Nature, 409, 81–85.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jackson, M. G., Hart, S. R., Koppers, A. A. P., Staudigel, H., Konter, J., Blusztajn, J., Kurz, M., and Russell, J. A. (2007), “The return of subducted continental crust in Samoan lavas,” Nature, 448, 684–687.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stratton, J. A. (2015), Electromagnetic Theory, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Arnaldi, S., Ferrari, A., Magaudda, P., and Marin, F. (eds.) (2014), Responsibility in Nanotechnology Development, The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Stechert, C., Franke, H.-J., and Vietor, T. (2011), “Knowledge-Based Design Principles and Tools for Parallel Robots,” in Robotic Systems for Handling and Assembly, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, eds. D. Schütz and F. M. Wahl, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 59–75.

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

Davis, J. (2017), “Mothers Predominately Cradling Infants On Their Left May Have A Deep Evolutionary Origin,” 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 (1988), Aviation Services: Automation and Consolidation of Flight Service Stations, 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

Shendge, P. N. (2017), “Improvement in Estimation of Carrier Frequency Offset in Wireless Networks,” 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

Gordon, M. R., and Schmitt, E. (2017), “Defying Turkey, U.S. Will Arm Kurds in Syria,” New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gomory 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gomory 2010; Rivera and Lake 2004).

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

Two authors: (Rivera and Lake 2004)
Three or more authors: (Jackson et al. 2007)

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