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

Ferlaino, F.: Molecular physics: Complexity trapped by simplicity. Nature. 512, 261–262 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hulleman, C.S., Harackiewicz, J.M.: Promoting interest and performance in high school science classes. Science. 326, 1410–1412 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Hermanson, O., Jepsen, K., Rosenfeld, M.G.: N-CoR controls differentiation of neural stem cells into astrocytes. Nature. 419, 934–939 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Popescu, G., Robert, A., Howe, J.R., Auerbach, A.: Reaction mechanism determines NMDA receptor response to repetitive stimulation. Nature. 430, 790–793 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pietersen, W.: Strategic Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Kratsch, D., Todinca, I. eds: Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science: 40th International Workshop, WG 2014, Nouan-le-Fuzelier, France, June 25-27, 2014. Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Roederer, J., Zhang, H.: Particle Fluxes, Distribution Functions and Violation of Invariants. In: Zhang, H. (ed.) Dynamics of Magnetically Trapped Particles: Foundations of the Physics of Radiation Belts and Space Plasmas. pp. 89–122. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (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

Andrew, E.: 10 Space Myths We Need to Stop Believing, https://www.iflscience.com/space/10-space-myths-we-need-stop-believing/

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: Federal Research: Observations on the Small Business Innovation Research Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1998)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Greene, J.: Recognizing the “Muchness” in Art Education: a Historical Analysis of Developments in Education and Art Education Since the 1950s and the Finding Your Muchness Photoshop Curriculum, (2017)

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

Shear, M.D.: President Issues Terms of a Deal Over ‘Dreamers,’ (2017)

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