How to format your references using the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (JRSS). 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

Berkley, S. (2015) Share the risks of Ebola vaccine development. Nature, 519, 263.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schubert, E. F. and Kim, J. K. (2005) Solid-state light sources getting smart. Science, 308, 1274–1278.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hopkins, A. L., Witty, M. J. and Nwaka, S. (2007) Mission possible. Nature, 449, 166–169.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zheng, X.-T., You, H.-L., Xu, X., et al. (2009) An Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid dinosaur with filamentous integumentary structures. Nature, 458, 333–336.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sehgal, V. (2011) Supply Chain as Strategic Asset. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Breidlid, A., Cheyeka, A. M. and Farag, A. I. (eds) (2015) Perspectives on Youth, HIV/AIDS and Indigenous Knowledges. Youth, Media, & Culture Series. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Calle, A. and Casanova, J. L. (2008) Ozone in the Atmosphere. In Earth Observation of Global Change: The Role of Satellite Remote Sensing in Monitoring the Global Environment (ed. E. Chuvieco), pp. 59–84. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Royal Statistical Society.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015) Cancer Hijacks the Cell’s Aging Process. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cancer-hijacks-cells-aging-process/ (accessed 30 October 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 (1991) FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB. IMTEC-91-22, 18 January. 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

Schoettler, M. R. (2017) A Publish-Subscribe Framework for Embedded Systems: Simplifying the Development Process. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Schwartz, J. (2017) Victor Lownes, 88, Rake and Colleague of Hefner. New York Times, 13 January.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Berkley, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Berkley, 2015; Schubert and Kim, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Schubert and Kim, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
ISSN (print)	0964-1998
ISSN (online)	1467-985X
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