How to format your references using the Journal of Theoretical Probability citation style

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

Alvarez, M.: Time for a change. Nature. 445, 682 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Merad, M., Salmon, H.: Cancer: A dendritic-cell brake on antitumour immunity. Nature. 523, 294–295 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Archibald, J.D., Averianov, A.O., Ekdale, E.G.: Late Cretaceous relatives of rabbits, rodents, and other extant eutherian mammals. Nature. 414, 62–65 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stallard, T., Miller, S., Melin, H., Lystrup, M., Cowley, S.W.H., Bunce, E.J., Achilleos, N., Dougherty, M.: Jovian-like aurorae on Saturn. Nature. 453, 1083–1085 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Young, S.D.: Psychology at the Movies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2012)

An edited book

Bradley, D.T., Ryherd, E.E., Ronsse, L.M. eds: Worship Space Acoustics: 3 Decades of Design. Springer, New York, NY (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Terkla, D.G., Sharkness, J., Conoscenti, L.M., Butler, C.: Using Data to Inform Institutional Decision Making at Tufts University. In: Menon, M.E., Terkla, D.G., and Gibbs, P. (eds.) Using Data to Improve Higher Education: Research, Policy and Practice. pp. 39–63. SensePublishers, Rotterdam (2014)

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 Theoretical Probability.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Nearly 700 Million Cases Of Malaria Have Been Prevented Since 2000, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nearly-700-million-cases-malaria-have-been-prevented-2000/

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: Statewide Transportation Planning: Surveys of State Departments of Transportation and Regional Planning and Development Organizations (GAO-11-78SP, December 2010), an E-supplement to GAO-11-77. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2010)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Starkenberg, L.I.: Health science student’s knowledge of oral health and preventive practices, (2015)

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

Barry, E., Kishkovsky, S.: For Tolstoy and Russia, Still No Happy Ending, (2011)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Theoretical Probability
Abbreviation	J. Theor. Probab.
ISSN (print)	0894-9840
ISSN (online)	1572-9230
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty General Mathematics Statistics and Probability