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

Blandford, R.D., 2002. Blood out of a stone. Science 295, 1653–1654.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Waal, F.B., Berger, M.L., 2000. Payment for labour in monkeys. Nature 404, 563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oerlemans, J., Dahl-Jensen, D., Masson-Delmotte, V., 2006. Ice sheets and sea level. Science 313, 1043–5; author reply 1043-5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shen, C., Clarkson, E.N.K., Yang, J., Lan, T., Hou, J.-B., Zhang, X.-G., 2014. Development and trunk segmentation of early instars of a ptychopariid trilobite from Cambrian Stage 5 of China. Sci. Rep. 4, 6970.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, T., Andrews, G.J., Cummins, S., Greenhough, B., Lewis, D., Power, A., 2017. Health Geographies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Koslowski, P. (Ed.), 2010. Elements of a Philosophy of Management and Organization, Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Domínguez García, R., Schmidt, S., Rensing, C., Steinmetz, R., 2012. Automatic Taxonomy Extraction in Different Languages Using Wikipedia and Minimal Language-Specific Information, in: Gelbukh, A. (Ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 13th International Conference, CICLing 2012, New Delhi, India, March 11-17, 2012, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 42–53.

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. Scientists Trace The Origins Of The Last Two HIV-1 Groups [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2002. Technology Transfer: Several Factors Have Led to a Decline in Partnerships at DOE’s Laboratories (No. GAO-02-465). 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

Spezia, K., 2015. Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfers in Porous Media (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Parker, A., Sanger, D.E., 2016. Trump Eggs on Moscow in Hack of Clinton Email. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blandford, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Blandford, 2002; de Waal and Berger, 2000).

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

Two authors: (de Waal and Berger, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Shen et al., 2014)

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