How to format your references using the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference citation style

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

Hillery, M., 2010. Physics. Quantum walks through a waveguide maze. Science 329, 1477–1478.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jadamec, M.A., Billen, M.I., 2010. Reconciling surface plate motions with rapid three-dimensional mantle flow around a slab edge. Nature 465, 338–341.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mosey, N.J., Müser, M.H., Woo, T.K., 2005. Molecular mechanisms for the functionality of lubricant additives. Science 307, 1612–1615.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ruan, C.-Y., Lobastov, V.A., Vigliotti, F., Chen, S., Zewail, A.H., 2004. Ultrafast electron crystallography of interfacial water. Science 304, 80–84.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Held, T., 2014. In-situ-Verfahren zur Boden- und Grundwassersanierung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Dal Fabbro, P.A., 2010. Linear CMOS RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Applications: Efficiency Enhancement and Frequency-Tunable Capability, Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Kato, S., 2016. Ubiquitous Wireless Communications Beyond 2050, in: Prasad, R., Dixit, S. (Eds.), Wireless World in 2050 and Beyond: A Window into the Future!, Springer Series in Wireless Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 41–47.

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 Planning and Inference.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Researchers Study More Than 15,000 Penises To Determine Average Lengths Around The World [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-study-probes-average-penis-size/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2008. Electronic Government: Additional OMB Leadership Needed to Optimize Use of New Federal Employee Identification Cards (No. GAO-08-292). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Llamas, A.L., 2017. ALLTAP Solutions, LLC: A Business Plan (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Miller, S., 2017. Tennis Stars on Steroids? It’s Make Believe, Right? New York Times B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hillery, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hillery, 2010; Jadamec and Billen, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Jadamec and Billen, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ruan et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
Abbreviation	J. Stat. Plan. Inference
ISSN (print)	0378-3758
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Applied Mathematics Statistics and Probability