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

Broecker WS (2007) Climate change CO2 arithmetic. Science 315:1371

A journal article with 2 authors

Shendure J, Akey JM (2015) The origins, determinants, and consequences of human mutations. Science 349:1478–1483

A journal article with 3 authors

Fiorin G, Carnevale V, DeGrado WF (2010) Structural biology. The flu’s proton escort. Science 330:456–458

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pérez-Sieira S, López M, Nogueiras R, Tovar S (2014) Regulation of NR4A by nutritional status, gender, postnatal development and hormonal deficiency. Sci Rep 4:4264

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li RC-H (2008) RF Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Dym H, Kaashoek MA, Lancaster P, et al (eds) (2012) A Panorama of Modern Operator Theory and Related Topics: The Israel Gohberg Memorial Volume. Springer, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Tunstall NE, Warr CG (2012) Chemical Communication in Insects: The Peripheral Odour Coding System of Drosophila Melanogaster. In: López-Larrea C (ed) Sensing in Nature. Springer US, New York, NY, pp 59–77

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

Luntz S (2014) Scientists Detect Direct Evidence of Big Bang’s Gravitational Waves. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-detect-direct-evidence-big-bang’s-gravitational-waves/. 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 (2002) NASA: Better Mechanisms Needed for Sharing Lessons Learned. 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

Pyzdrowski JE (2017) Experiences of Advisors/Mentors in Developing Leadership Emergence in a Post Conflict, Marginalized Society: A Phenomenological Study. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Billard M (2010) Scouting Report. New York Times E6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Broecker 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Broecker 2007; Shendure and Akey 2015).

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

Two authors: (Shendure and Akey 2015)
Three or more authors: (Pérez-Sieira et al. 2014)

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