How to format your references using the Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes. 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

Renner SS (2011) Evolution. Living fossil younger than thought. Science 334:766–767

A journal article with 2 authors

Sergienko OV, Hindmarsh RCA (2013) Regular patterns in frictional resistance of ice-stream beds seen by surface data inversion. Science 342:1086–1089

A journal article with 3 authors

Polat EO, Balcı O, Kocabas C (2014) Graphene based flexible electrochromic devices. Sci Rep 4:6484

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Corsaro C, Mallamace D, Łojewska J, et al (2013) Molecular degradation of ancient documents revealed by 1H HR-MAS NMR spectroscopy. Sci Rep 3:2896

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kesidis G (2007) An Introduction to Communication Network Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Yuizono T, Ogata H, Hoppe U, Vassileva J (eds) (2016) Collaboration and Technology: 22nd International Conference, CRIWG 2016, Kanazawa, Japan, September 14-16, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Poirier DR, Geiger GH (2016) Flow and Vacuum Production. In: Geiger GH (ed) Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 145–183

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 Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes.

Blog post

Andrew E (2016) Scientists Are Using Drones To Help Predict Coastal Erosion. 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 (1972) Teacher Corps Programs Operated by the Buffalo State University College, the New York University, and the Harlem Institute for Teachers. 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

Garraway OL (2008) A study of the relationship between corporate leaders’ beliefs and the firm’s strategic decisions. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Markoff J (2017) Study Finds Vulnerability in Wide Range of Devices. 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 (Renner 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Renner 2011; Sergienko and Hindmarsh 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sergienko and Hindmarsh 2013)
Three or more authors: (Corsaro et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes
Abbreviation	Stat. Inference Stoch. Process.
ISSN (print)	1387-0874
ISSN (online)	1572-9311
Scope	Statistics and Probability