How to format your references using the Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Methodology and Computing in Applied 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

Tittel W (2015) Quantum physics: Teleportation for two. Nature 518:491–492

A journal article with 2 authors

Singer PA, Daar AS (2001) Harnessing genomics and biotechnology to improve global health equity. Science 294:87–89

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen BA, Hewins RH, Yu Y (2000) Evaporation in the young solar nebula as the origin of “just-right” melting of chondrules. Nature 406:600–602

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Prinz M, Heikenwalder M, Junt T, et al (2003) Positioning of follicular dendritic cells within the spleen controls prion neuroinvasion. Nature 425:957–962

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maude D (2006) Global Private Banking and Wealth Management. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Weber WG, Thoma M, Ostendorf A, Chisholm L (eds) (2012) Democratic Competences and Social Practices in Organizations. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden

A chapter in an edited book

Diekötter T, Walther-Hellwig K, Conradi M, et al (2006) Effects of landscape elements on the distribution of the rare bumblebee species Bombus muscorum in an agricultural landscape. In: Hawksworth DL, Bull AT (eds) Arthropod Diversity and Conservation. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 43–54

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 Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Doctors Hope To Convert Fat Into Ears. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-hope-convert-fat-ears/. 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 (2005) National Airspace System: Transformation will Require Cultural Change, Balanced Funding Priorities, and Use of All Available Management Tools. 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

Kelleher A (2017) Gendered Intent to Turnover Resulting from Workplace Bullying in Nursing and Medical Fields. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Gluck JP (2016) Regretting My Animal Research. 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 (Tittel 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Singer and Daar 2001; Tittel 2015).

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

Two authors: (Singer and Daar 2001)
Three or more authors: (Prinz et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability
Abbreviation	Methodol. Comput. Appl. Probab.
ISSN (print)	1387-5841
ISSN (online)	1573-7713
Scope	General Mathematics Statistics and Probability