How to format your references using the Journal of the American Statistical Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA). 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

Calegari, F. (2014), “Neurodevelopment. Tossed out to save the masses,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 346, 1298–1299.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickens, M., and Goldstrohm, A. (2003), “Molecular biology. A place to die, a place to sleep,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 300, 753–755.

A journal article with 3 authors

Upadhyay, D., Scherer, E. E., and Mezger, K. (2009), “(142)Nd evidence for an enriched Hadean reservoir in cratonic roots,” Nature, 459, 1118–1121.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, Y., Yu, H., Quan, X., Chen, S., Zhao, H., and Zhang, Y. (2014), “Efficient and durable hydrogen evolution electrocatalyst based on nonmetallic nitrogen doped hexagonal carbon,” Scientific reports, 4, 6843.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Franco, P. (2014), Understanding Bitcoin, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Peris-Ortiz, M., Ferreira, J. J., Farinha, L., and Fernandes, N. O. (eds.) (2016), Multiple Helix Ecosystems for Sustainable Competitiveness, Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management, Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Koski, E. (2011), “Clinical Laboratory Data for Biosurveillance,” in Infectious Disease Informatics and Biosurveillance: Research, Systems and Case Studies, Integrated Series in Information Systems, eds. C. Castillo-Chavez, H. Chen, W. B. Lober, M. Thurmond, and D. Zeng, Boston, MA: Springer US, pp. 67–87.

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 the American Statistical Association.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015), “What Does Herpes Do To Your Brain?,” IFLScience, IFLScience.

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 (1997), Inventory Management: The Army Could Reduce Logistics Costs for Aviation Parts by Adopting Best Practices, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brandom, B. M. (2009), “Spiritual and emotional needs of young adults who are members of mainstream Protestant churches,” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Barron, J. (2017), “Montauk Gives Bravo’s ‘Summer House’ a Cold Reception,” New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Calegari 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Calegari 2014; Wickens and Goldstrohm 2003).

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

Two authors: (Wickens and Goldstrohm 2003)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the American Statistical Association
Abbreviation	J. Am. Stat. Assoc.
ISSN (print)	0162-1459
ISSN (online)	1537-274X
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Statistics and Probability