How to format your references using the Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications. 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

Cumming, B.G.: An unexpected specialization for horizontal disparity in primate primary visual cortex. Nature. 418, 633–636 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Franklin, C.E., Axelsson, M.: An actively controlled heart valve. Nature. 406, 847–848 (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Lohman, D.J., Bickford, D., Sodhi, N.S.: Environment. The burning issue. Science. 316, 376 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Matzel, J.E.P., Ishii, H.A., Joswiak, D., Hutcheon, I.D., Bradley, J.P., Brownlee, D., Weber, P.K., Teslich, N., Matrajt, G., McKeegan, K.D., MacPherson, G.J.: Constraints on the formation age of cometary material from the NASA Stardust mission. Science. 328, 483–486 (2010)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolson, R.F., Clarke, W.R.: Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Biomedical Data: Woolson/Statistical. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2002)

An edited book

Nguyen, N.T., Kowalczyk, R., Xhafa, F. eds: Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XIX. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Harnesk, D., Lindström, J.: Materializing Organizational Information Security. In: Keller, C., Wiberg, M., Ågerfalk, P.J., and Eriksson Lundström, J.S.Z. (eds.) Nordic Contributions in IS Research: Third Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2012, Sigtuna, Sweden, August 17–20, 2012. Proceedings. pp. 76–94. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

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 Distributions and Applications.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Trawling Below 600 Meters Hurts Both Biodiversity And Catch Values

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: Credit Programs: Key Agencies Should Better Document Procedures for Estimating Subsidy Costs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2016)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Simmons, C.: Correlates and predictors of cognitive complexity among counseling and social work students in graduate training programs, (2008)

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

Baker, L.: Retirement Homes Go High-Rise and Urban, (2007)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cumming 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Cumming 2002; Franklin and Axelsson 2000).

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

Two authors: (Franklin and Axelsson 2000)
Three or more authors: (Matzel et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications
Abbreviation	J. Stat. Distrib. Appl.
ISSN (online)	2195-5832
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