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

Lovett RA (2000) PLANETARY SCIENCE: “Spiders” Channel Mars Polar Ice Cap. Science 289:1853a–4a

A journal article with 2 authors

Kennel C, Dressler A (2014) Space science. Coping with uncertainty in space science planning. Science 343:140–141

A journal article with 3 authors

Zarrinpar A, Park S-H, Lim WA (2003) Optimization of specificity in a cellular protein interaction network by negative selection. Nature 426:676–680

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schalch T, Duda S, Sargent DF, Richmond TJ (2005) X-ray structure of a tetranucleosome and its implications for the chromatin fibre. Nature 436:138–141

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Temple LP III (2013) Implosion. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Zeimpekis V, Ichoua S, Minis I (eds) (2013) Humanitarian and Relief Logistics: Research Issues, Case Studies and Future Trends. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Dumont M, Cook A, Kinsley N (2016) Acceleration Measurement Optimization: Mounting Considerations and Sensor Mass Effect. In: Mains M (ed) Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 10: Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 61–71

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) Seven Myths About Scientists Debunked. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/seven-myths-about-scientists-debunked/. 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 (2003) Aviation Finance: Implementation of General Aviation Entitlement Grants. 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

Eldanaf RG (2012) Angry Cherub. 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

Sisario B (2017) After 15 Years, New York Is Back as Grammy Host. New York Times B2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lovett 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lovett 2000; Kennel and Dressler 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kennel and Dressler 2014)
Three or more authors: (Schalch et al. 2005)

About the journal

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