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

Walsh, R. W. (2005), “Astronomy. How is the solar corona heated?,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 307, 51–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reik, W., and Dean, W. (2002), “Back to the beginning,” Nature, 420, 127.

A journal article with 3 authors

He, W., Cowin, P., and Stokes, D. L. (2003), “Untangling desmosomal knots with electron tomography,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 302, 109–113.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Collinet, C., Stöter, M., Bradshaw, C. R., Samusik, N., Rink, J. C., Kenski, D., Habermann, B., Buchholz, F., Henschel, R., Mueller, M. S., Nagel, W. E., Fava, E., Kalaidzidis, Y., and Zerial, M. (2010), “Systems survey of endocytosis by multiparametric image analysis,” Nature, 464, 243–249.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jain, R. K., Triandis, H. C., and Weick, C. W. (2010), Managing Research, Development, and Innovation, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Smith, M., Cette, G., Bauer, F., and Delsen, L. (eds.) (2009), Comparative Analyses of Operating Hours and Working Times in the European Union, Contributions to Economics, Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD.

A chapter in an edited book

Silanikove, N. (2008), “Milk Lipoprotein Membranes and Their Imperative Enzymes,” in Bioactive Components of Milk, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, ed. Z. Bösze, New York, NY: Springer, pp. 143–161.

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), “Fisherman Catches Fish With Two Mouths,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Available athttps://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/australian-fisherman-catches-two-mouthed-fish/.

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 (1999), Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Important Progress Made, Yet Much Work Remains to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services, 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

Nersisyan, H. A. (2017), “Armenian American Student Perceptions of Campus Climate: Examining the Conditions That Support or Inhibit Their College Experience,” 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

Kelly, D. (1993), “From Warhol to Rathole,” New York Times, 714.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walsh 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Reik and Dean 2002; Walsh 2005).

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

Two authors: (Reik and Dean 2002)
Three or more authors: (Collinet et al. 2010)

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