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

Schrope M (2000) Climatology. Trouble in the greenhouse. Nature 407:10–12

A journal article with 2 authors

Pellerin L, Magistretti PJ (2004) Neuroscience. Let there be (NADH) light. Science 305:50–52

A journal article with 3 authors

Bode F, Sachs F, Franz MR (2001) Tarantula peptide inhibits atrial fibrillation. Nature 409:35–36

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim S-J, Naruse M, Aono M, et al (2013) Decision maker based on nanoscale photo-excitation transfer. Sci Rep 3:2370

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prud’Homme R (2013) Flows and Chemical Reactions in Homogeneous Mixtures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Klees SJ, Samoff J, Stromquist NP (eds) (2012) The World Bank and Education: Critiques and Alternatives. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Heinrich B (2008) Exchange Coupling in Magnetic Multilayers. In: Zabel H, Bader SD (eds) Magnetic Heterostructures: Advances and Perspectives in Spinstructures and Spintransport. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 185–250

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) Colliding Galaxies Are Producing A Spectacular Light Show. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/colliding-galaxies-are-producing-spectacular-light-show/. 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 (2014) DOE Loan Programs: DOE Has Made More Than $30 Billion in Loans and Guarantees and Needs to Fully Develop Its Loan Monitoring Function. 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

Salifu A (2008) Names that prick: Royal praise names in Dagbon, northern Ghana. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Kishkovsky S (2012) Russia: Blogger Meets With Cleric. New York Times A7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schrope 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Schrope 2000; Pellerin and Magistretti 2004).

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

Two authors: (Pellerin and Magistretti 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2013)

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