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

Renton P (2004) Has the Higgs boson been discovered? Nature 428:141–144

A journal article with 2 authors

Pascual-Leone A, Walsh V (2001) Fast backprojections from the motion to the primary visual area necessary for visual awareness. Science 292:510–512

A journal article with 3 authors

Vreeland RH, Rosenzweig WD, Powers DW (2000) Isolation of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal. Nature 407:897–900

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang W, Ronneberger I, Zalden P, et al (2014) How fragility makes phase-change data storage robust: insights from ab initio simulations. Sci Rep 4:6529

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunter DA (2014) A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sain S (2014) Customer Knowledge Management: Leveraging Soft Skills to Improve Customer Focus. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Girod SC (2013) How to Align Individual Goals with Institutional Goals. In: Roberts LW (ed) The Academic Medicine Handbook: A Guide to Achievement and Fulfillment for Academic Faculty. Springer, New York, NY, pp 27–31

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

Andrew E (2015) Our Web History Reveals What We Think And Do. Shouldn’t That Remain Private? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/our-web-history-reveals-what-we-think-and-do-shouldn-t-remain-private/. 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 (1984) Secondary Market Activities of the Student Loan Marketing Association. 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

Castan JU (2010) Congruence x employment tenure: A study with transitioning youth with disabilities. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Wilford JN (2016) John Glenn, Hero of the Space Age and a Longtime Senator, Is Dead at 95. 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 (Renton 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Pascual-Leone and Walsh 2001; Renton 2004).

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

Two authors: (Pascual-Leone and Walsh 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

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