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

Feldman, D.E., 2014. Physics. Electronically erased. Science 344, 1344–1345.

A journal article with 2 authors

Graf, T., Enver, T., 2009. Forcing cells to change lineages. Nature 462, 587–594.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meschke, M., Guichard, W., Pekola, J.P., 2006. Single-mode heat conduction by photons. Nature 444, 187–190.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sambashivan, S., Liu, Y., Sawaya, M.R., Gingery, M., Eisenberg, D., 2005. Amyloid-like fibrils of ribonuclease A with three-dimensional domain-swapped and native-like structure. Nature 437, 266–269.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, D.J., 2011. Bond Math. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Edmonds, B., Meyer, R. (Eds.), 2013. Simulating Social Complexity: A Handbook, Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang, H.W., Yablonovitch, E., Xiao, M., Sakr, M., Scott, G., Croke, E.T., 2009. Single-Electron-Spin Measurements in Si-Based Semiconductor Nanostructures, in: Fanciulli, M. (Ed.), Electron Spin Resonance and Related Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Structures, Topics in Applied Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 81–100.

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. Discovery Of ‘Oldest’ Qur’an Fragments Could Resolve Enigmatic History Of Holy Text [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/discovery-oldest-quran-fragments-could-resolve-enigmatic-history-holy-text/ (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, 2003. Head Start: Curriculum Use and Individual Child Assessment in Cognitive and Language Development (No. GAO-03-1049). 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

Manuel, D.G., 2019. Integrate or Innovate: Controlling Schedule Risk in Major Defense Acquisition Programs (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Bosman, J., Chokshi, N., 2017. In Historic Shift, Boy Scouts Will Accept Girls. 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 (Feldman, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Feldman, 2014; Graf and Enver, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Graf and Enver, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Sambashivan et al., 2005)

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