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

Marx D (2004) Chemistry. Throwing tetrahedral dice. Science 303:634–636

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenberg SM, Queitsch C (2014) Medicine. Combating evolution to fight disease. Science 343:1088–1089

A journal article with 3 authors

Halberda J, Mazzocco MMM, Feigenson L (2008) Individual differences in non-verbal number acuity correlate with maths achievement. Nature 455:665–668

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Velcich A, Yang W, Heyer J, et al (2002) Colorectal cancer in mice genetically deficient in the mucin Muc2. Science 295:1726–1729

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ibe EH (2014) Terrestrial Radiation Effects in ULSI Devices and Electronic Systems. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Maciaszek LA, Zhang K (eds) (2013) Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering: 6th International Conference, ENASE 2011, Beijing, China, June 8-11, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Brunner D, Voigt T (2008) Innovation Processes in Cooperative Organizations: Results of a Case Study Research. In: Hendrikse G, Tuunanen M, Windsperger J, Cliquet G (eds) Strategy and Governance of Networks: Cooperatives, Franchising, and Strategic Alliances. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, pp 47–62

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 (2014) There’s A Place On Earth That Experiences 1.2 Million Lighting Strikes A Year. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/theres-place-earth-experiences-12-million-lighting-strikes-year/. 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 (1999) Mass Transit: Use of Alternative Fuels in Transit Buses. 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

Dizon F (2017) Treatment and Return to Play of Three Runners with Bone Stress Injury and/or Other Traits of a Male-Version of the Female Athlete Triad: A Case Series. 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

Chira S (2016) The Myth of Female Solidarity. New York Times SR7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Marx 2004; Rosenberg and Queitsch 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rosenberg and Queitsch 2014)
Three or more authors: (Velcich et al. 2002)

About the journal

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