How to format your references using the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Robinson K. Personal finance. So what should you invest in? Science. 2006;313(5792):1456.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Christensen JH, Christensen OB. Climate modelling: Severe summertime flooding in Europe. Nature. 2003;421(6925):805–806.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Labeit A, Peinemann F, Kedir A. Cervical cancer screening service utilisation in UK. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2362.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Zhu X, Yan Z, Wu W, et al. Manipulating size of Li3V2(PO4)3 with reduced graphene oxide: towards high-performance composite cathode for lithium ion batteries. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5768.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bartoszyǹski R, Niewiadomska-Bugaj M. Probability and Statistical Inference, Second Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Felleisen M, Gardner P, editors. Programming Languages and Systems: 22nd European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2013, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2013, Rome, Italy, March 16-24, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chapin FS, Cochran P, Huntington OH, et al. Traditional Knowledge and Wisdom: A Guide for Understanding and Shaping Alaskan Social-Ecological Change. In: Rozzi R, Pickett STA, Palmer C, et al., editors. Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World: Values, Philosophy, and Action. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 49–62.

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 Statistical Computation and Simulation.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. New Simulation Helps Explain The Mysteries Of Supercooled Water [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-simulation-helps-explain-the-mysteries-of-supercooled-water/.

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. ICBM Modernization: Status, Survivable Basing Issues, and Need To Reestablish a National Consensus. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986. Report No.: NSIAD-86-200. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Powers DL. Teachers’ perceptions of the effects of No Child Left Behind on classroom instruction: A cross case analysis applying Dewey’s theory of instructional methods [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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]

Gorman J. More Than the Sum of Its Parts. New York Times. 2017 Feb 13;D6.

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	Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
Abbreviation	J. Stat. Comput. Simul.
ISSN (print)	0094-9655
ISSN (online)	1563-5163
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation Statistics and Probability