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

Hassan, M. (2008), “Beijing 1987: China’s coming-out party,” Nature, 455, 598–599.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang, Y., and Lisberger, S. G. (2014), “Purkinje-cell plasticity and cerebellar motor learning are graded by complex-spike duration,” Nature, 510, 529–532.

A journal article with 3 authors

Samokhvalov, I. M., Samokhvalova, N. I., and Nishikawa, S.-I. (2007), “Cell tracing shows the contribution of the yolk sac to adult haematopoiesis,” Nature, 446, 1056–1061.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Janssen, B. J. C., Christodoulidou, A., McCarthy, A., Lambris, J. D., and Gros, P. (2006), “Structure of C3b reveals conformational changes that underlie complement activity,” Nature, 444, 213–216.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews, C. (1998), A Practical Guide to Engineering Failure Investigation, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Brøndsted Nielsen, S., and Wyer, J. A. (eds.) (2013), Photophysics of Ionic Biochromophores, Physical Chemistry in Action, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Păun, G. (2014), “Some Open Problems about Catalytic, Numerical, and Spiking Neural P Systems,” in Membrane Computing: 14th International Conference, CMC 2013, Chişinău, Republic of Moldova, August 20-23, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, eds. A. Alhazov, S. Cojocaru, M. Gheorghe, Y. Rogozhin, G. Rozenberg, and A. Salomaa, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 33–39.

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

Hale, T. (2017), “Loads Of Processed Foods And Drinks Are Way Saltier Than You Think,” 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 (1978), Federal Direction Needed for Educating Handicapped Children in State Schools, 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

Chotkevys, D. L. (2009), “A grounded theory study to explore how nurses overcome barriers to spiritual care,” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017), “Crowd Lifts Frenchwoman. Now, Who Will Hoist a First Major Trophy?,” New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hassan 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Hassan 2008; Yang and Lisberger 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yang and Lisberger 2014)
Three or more authors: (Janssen et al. 2006)

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