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]

Dowswell C. Retroscpective. Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914-2009). Science. 2009;326(5951):381.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Victor DG, Kennel CF. Climate policy: Ditch the 2 °C warming goal. Nature. 2014;514(7520):30–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Makovicky PJ, Apesteguía S, Agnolín FL. The earliest dromaeosaurid theropod from South America. Nature. 2005;437(7061):1007–1011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Makarova TL, Sundqvist B, Höhne R, et al. Magnetic carbon. Nature. 2001;413(6857):716–718.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Naylor W, Laverty D, Mallett J. The Royal Marsden Hospital Handbook of Wound Management in Cancer Care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Green JE, Ried T, editors. Genetically Engineered Mice for Cancer Research: design, analysis, pathways, validation and pre-clinical testing. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Altrabsheh N, Cocea M, Fallahkhair S. Learning Sentiment from Students’ Feedback for Real-Time Interventions in Classrooms. In: Bouchachia A, editor. Adaptive and Intelligent Systems: Third International Conference, ICAIS 2014, Bournemouth, UK, September 8-10, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 40–49.

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

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Fang J. Cracks in Pluto’s Moon Reveal Underground Ocean [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/cracks-plutos-reveal-underground-ocean/.

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. Mass Transit: Status of New Starts Transit Projects With Full Funding Grant Agreements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999. Report No.: RCED-99-240. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Raynor SL. A Critical Quantitative Examination of the Relationship between Constructs of Engagement and Latino College Completion [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2017.

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]

Poniewozik J. A Debate? Or Rivals Just Trying to Go Viral? New York Times. 2016 Oct 10;A15.

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