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

Holmes A (2007) Obituary: Alan Graham MacDiarmid (1927-2007). Nature 446:390

A journal article with 2 authors

Armstrong JB, Schindler DE (2011) Excess digestive capacity in predators reflects a life of feast and famine. Nature 476:84–87

A journal article with 3 authors

Skourti-Stathaki K, Kamieniarz-Gdula K, Proudfoot NJ (2014) R-loops induce repressive chromatin marks over mammalian gene terminators. Nature 516:436–439

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Boutanaev AM, Kalmykova AI, Shevelyov YY, Nurminsky DI (2002) Large clusters of co-expressed genes in the Drosophila genome. Nature 420:666–669

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beagle JR (2013) Surgical Essentials of Immediate Implant Dentistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Smeets B (2008) Beginning Google Web Toolkit: From Novice to Professional. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Guckenberger M (2015) Stereotaxic Body Radiotherapy for Stage I NSCLC. In: Peters S, Besse B (eds) New Therapeutic Strategies in Lung Cancers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 33–48

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

Hale T (2015) How A Shark Attack Saved A Man’s Life. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/shark-attack-which-saved-man-s-life/. 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 (1977) Status of the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn 1977 Project. 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

Stroud M (2012) Solar desalination in the southwest United States: A thermoeconomic analysis utilizing the sun to desalt water in high irradiance regions. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Healy J, Fandos N (2016) Protesters Gain Victory in Fight Over Oil Pipeline. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holmes 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Holmes 2007; Armstrong and Schindler 2011).

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

Two authors: (Armstrong and Schindler 2011)
Three or more authors: (Boutanaev et al. 2002)

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