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

Baker, J. (2006), “The falcon has landed. Introduction to special issue,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 312, 1327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mittal, S., and Hafezi, M. (2015), “Materials science: Round the bend with microwaves,” Nature, 522, 292–293.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wearn, O. R., Reuman, D. C., and Ewers, R. M. (2012), “Extinction debt and windows of conservation opportunity in the Brazilian Amazon,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 337, 228–232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ates, S., Agha, I., Gulinatti, A., Rech, I., Badolato, A., and Srinivasan, K. (2013), “Improving the performance of bright quantum dot single photon sources using temporal filtering via amplitude modulation,” Scientific reports, 3, 1397.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pick, J. B. (2012), Geo-Business GIS in the Digital Organization, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Berry, M. W., and Castellanos, M. (eds.) (2008), Survey of Text Mining II: Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval, London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Suzuki, S. (2013), “Control Scheme for Automatic Takeoff and Landing of Small Electric Helicopter,” in Autonomous Control Systems and Vehicles: Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, eds. K. Nonami, M. Kartidjo, K.-J. Yoon, and A. Budiyono, Tokyo: Springer Japan, pp. 73–83.

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

Andrew, E. (2015), “What Is Interplanetary Dust And Can It Spread The Ingredients Of Life?,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Available athttps://www.iflscience.com/space/what-interplanetary-dust-and-can-it-spread-ingredients-life/.

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), Factors Affecting Concentration in the Airline Industry, 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

Harris, A. E. (2017), “A quantitative study of the impact of CFO and auditor turnover on internal control weaknesses,” Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Walsh, M. W. (2010), “Shudders in Market For Municipal Bonds,” New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Baker 2006; Mittal and Hafezi 2015).

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

Two authors: (Mittal and Hafezi 2015)
Three or more authors: (Ates et al. 2013)

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