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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Chiorescu I (2006) Physics. Microwave cooling of an artificial atom. Science 314:1549–1550

A journal article with 2 authors

Ravizza G, Peucker-Ehrenbrink B (2003) Chemostratigraphic evidence of Deccan volcanism from the marine osmium isotope record. Science 302:1392–1395

A journal article with 3 authors

Qvarnström A, Brommer JE, Gustafsson L (2006) Testing the genetics underlying the co-evolution of mate choice and ornament in the wild. Nature 441:84–86

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Trewick SC, Henshaw TF, Hausinger RP, et al (2002) Oxidative demethylation by Escherichia coli AlkB directly reverts DNA base damage. Nature 419:174–178

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Middleton D (2012) Non-Gaussian Statistical Communication Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lenz H-J, Wilrich P-T (eds) (2006) Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control 8. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Jevtić M, Vukotić D, Arsenović M (2016) Hardy Spaces of Analytic Functions. In: Vukotić D, Arsenović M (eds) Taylor Coefficients and Coefficient Multipliers of Hardy and Bergman-Type Spaces. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 57–89

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

Andrew E (2016) The Hefty Price Of ‘Study Drug’ Misuse On College Campuses. In: IFLScience. 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 (2013) America COMPETES Acts: Overall Appropriations Have Increased and Have Mainly Funded Existing Federal Research Entities. 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

Berbery ML (2010) Predictors of White adoptive parents’ cultural and racial socialization behaviors with their Asian adopted children. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Crane AT, Hay G, Larsen PT (2011) Mortgage Market Due for Overhaul. New York Times B2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chiorescu 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Ravizza and Peucker-Ehrenbrink 2003; Chiorescu 2006).

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

Two authors: (Ravizza and Peucker-Ehrenbrink 2003)
Three or more authors: (Trewick et al. 2002)

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