How to format your references using the Statistical Papers citation style

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

Service RF (2000) ELECTRONIC OPTICS: Organic Lasers Promise New Lease on Light. Science 289:519–521

A journal article with 2 authors

Gut P, Verdin E (2013) The nexus of chromatin regulation and intermediary metabolism. Nature 502:489–498

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldner A, Herold N, Huber M (2014) Antarctic glaciation caused ocean circulation changes at the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Nature 511:574–577

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Czub E, Nowak JK, Moczko J, et al (2014) Comparison of fecal pyruvate kinase isoform M2 and calprotectin in acute diarrhea in hospitalized children. Sci Rep 4:4769

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stokes DJ (2008) Principles and Practice of Variable Pressure/Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (VP-ESEM). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bilheux HZ, McGreevy R, Anderson IS (eds) (2009) Neutron Imaging and Applications: A Reference for the Imaging Community. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Humphreys H, Winter B, Paul M (2013) Principles of Treatment: Decision Making. In: Winter B, Paul M (eds) Infections in the Adult Intensive Care Unit. Springer, London, pp 55–81

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 Papers.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Meet Bowie, The Rescue Koala With Different Colored Eyes. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-bowie-the-rescue-koala-with-different-colored-eyes/. 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 (1996) Job Corps: Comparison of Federal Program With State Youth Training Initiatives. 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

Van Name J (2013) Boolean Partition Algebras. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Saslow L (2007) List of Weak Schools Claims 2, Removes One. New York Times 14LI2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Service 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Service 2000; Gut and Verdin 2013).

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

Two authors: (Gut and Verdin 2013)
Three or more authors: (Czub et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Statistical Papers
Abbreviation	Stat. Pap. (Berl)
ISSN (print)	0932-5026
ISSN (online)	1613-9798
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Statistics and Probability