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

Watts, D.J., 2007. A twenty-first century science. Nature 445, 489.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yin, Y.W., Steitz, T.A., 2002. Structural basis for the transition from initiation to elongation transcription in T7 RNA polymerase. Science 298, 1387–1395.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tripathi, M.K., Sahu, K.C., Govindarajan, R., 2014. Why a falling drop does not in general behave like a rising bubble. Sci. Rep. 4, 4771.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Caggiano, V., Fogassi, L., Rizzolatti, G., Thier, P., Casile, A., 2009. Mirror neurons differentially encode the peripersonal and extrapersonal space of monkeys. Science 324, 403–406.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stein, P.D., 2016. Pulmonary Embolism. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Shimjith, S.R., 2013. Modeling and Control of a Large Nuclear Reactor: A Three-Time-Scale Approach, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Manzon, M., 2014. Comparing Places, in: Bray, M., Adamson, B., Mason, M. (Eds.), Comparative Education Research: Approaches and Methods. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 97–137.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Five Trillion Pieces of Plastic are Floating at Sea [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/five-trillion-pieces-plastic-are-floating-sea/ (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, 1975. Programs at the U.S. Army School of the Americas in Panama (No. ID-76-27). 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

Rivers, M., 2012. Bridging the knowledge gap between the Baby Boomers and the multigenerations (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Ortved, J., 2017. Model Makes A Stand With Feminist Art. New York Times D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Watts, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Watts, 2007; Yin and Steitz, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Yin and Steitz, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Caggiano et al., 2009)

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