How to format your references using the Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics. 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

von Andrian UH (2002) Immunology. T cell activation in six dimensions. Science 296:1815–1817

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickware P, Smaglik P (2001) Labs and companies seek their niches as work continues after the draft. Nature 409:961–963

A journal article with 3 authors

Janetopoulos C, Jin T, Devreotes P (2001) Receptor-mediated activation of heterotrimeric G-proteins in living cells. Science 291:2408–2411

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chang Y-C, Lu S-C, Chung H-C, et al (2013) High-throughput nanofabrication of infra-red and chiral metamaterials using nanospherical-lens lithography. Sci Rep 3:3339

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zwecher MJ (2010) Retirement Portfolios. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Puzyn T, Leszczynski J, Cronin MT (eds) (2010) Recent Advances in QSAR Studies: Methods and Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Chernousko FL, Ananievski IM, Reshmin SA (2008) Piecewise linear control for mechanical systems under uncertainty. In: Ananievski IM, Reshmin SA (eds) Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Methods and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 157–212

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 Indian Society for Probability and Statistics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Is Actually Sort Of Happening. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musks-hyperloop-actually-sort-happening/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2014) Federal Student Loans: Impact of Loan Limit Increases on College Prices Is Difficult to Discern. 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

Mahrenholz F (2010) The emergence, growth, and challenges of online learning. Doctoral dissertation, 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 C (2011) Amid the City, Learning to Survive in the Wild. New York Times C35

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (von Andrian 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Wickware and Smaglik 2001; von Andrian 2002).

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

Two authors: (Wickware and Smaglik 2001)
Three or more authors: (Chang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics
ISSN (online)	2364-9569
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