How to format your references using the Metrika citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Metrika. 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

Melino G (2010) Journal club. A cancer biologist weighs up p53, metabolism and cancer. Nature 466:905

A journal article with 2 authors

Leung CT, Brugge JS (2012) Outgrowth of single oncogene-expressing cells from suppressive epithelial environments. Nature 482:410–413

A journal article with 3 authors

Davidson EM, Frothingham R, Cook-Deegan R (2007) Science and security. Practical experiences in dual-use review. Science 316:1432–1433

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Biron D, Libros P, Sagi D, et al (2001) Asexual reproduction: “midwives” assist dividing amoebae. Nature 410:430

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazar Madjar H (2016) Radio Spectrum Management. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Gill J (2016) A Girl’s Education: Schooling and the Formation of Gender, Identities and Future Visions. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Johansson P-O, Kriström B (2012) The Main Items in the Cost-Benefit Analysis. In: Kriström B (ed) The Economics of Evaluating Water Projects: Hydroelectricity Versus Other Uses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 29–42

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 Metrika.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) No, This Isn’t An Alien. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/desperate-animal-sunbear-not-alien/. 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 (2004) Summary Analysis of Federal Commercial Aviation Taxes and Fees. 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

Humphreys BP (2013) The Role of Developmental Screening Practices in Early Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Analysis of All-Payer Claims Data in New Hampshire. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Wasik JF (2016) Regular Investing Smooths the Market’s Ups and Downs. New York Times BU14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Melino 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Melino 2010; Leung and Brugge 2012).

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

Two authors: (Leung and Brugge 2012)
Three or more authors: (Biron et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Metrika
Abbreviation	Metrika
ISSN (print)	0026-1335
ISSN (online)	1435-926X
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Statistics and Probability