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

Emery B (2010) Regulation of oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination. Science 330:779–782

A journal article with 2 authors

Wright CW, Duckett CS (2009) The aryl hydrocarbon nuclear translocator alters CD30-mediated NF-kappaB-dependent transcription. Science 323:251–255

A journal article with 3 authors

Viswanathan SR, Daley GQ, Gregory RI (2008) Selective blockade of microRNA processing by Lin28. Science 320:97–100

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pilot F, Philippe J-M, Lemmers C, Lecuit T (2006) Spatial control of actin organization at adherens junctions by a synaptotagmin-like protein Btsz. Nature 442:580–584

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (2013) MAK- und BAT-Werte-Liste 2013. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Golland P, Hata N, Barillot C, et al (eds) (2014) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2014: 17th International Conference, Boston, MA, USA, September 14-18, 2014, Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Collins ML, Murphy MP (2016) Activation: Solving Unemployment or Supporting a Low-Pay Economy? In: Murphy MP, Dukelow F (eds) The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Change. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 67–92

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

Hamilton K (2016) What Magic Mushrooms Do To Your Body And Brain. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-magic-mushrooms-do-to-your-body-and-brain/. 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 (2011) Department of Education: Improved Oversight and Controls Could Help Education Better Respond to Evolving Priorities. 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

Necaise KW (2012) Effects of soybean-derived phytoestrogens on reproductive tract development in neonatal male and female pigs: Animal model for the human infant. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Crow K (2002) Where 146 Died in a Fire, And a Union Was Born. New York Times 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Emery 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Wright and Duckett 2009; Emery 2010).

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

Two authors: (Wright and Duckett 2009)
Three or more authors: (Pilot et al. 2006)

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