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

Suomalainen A (2015) Stem cells: Asymmetric rejuvenation. Nature 521:296–298

A journal article with 2 authors

Burke A, Robinson LF (2012) The Southern Ocean’s role in carbon exchange during the last deglaciation. Science 335:557–561

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohn A, Fehr E, Maréchal MA (2014) Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry. Nature 516:86–89

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sano M, Kamino A, Okamura J, Shinkai S (2001) Ring closure of carbon nanotubes. Science 293:1299–1301

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Young S, Smith J (2017) Helping Children with ADHD. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Becvar Z, Bestak R, Kencl L (eds) (2012) NETWORKING 2012 Workshops: International IFIP TC 6 Workshops, ETICS, HetsNets, and CompNets, Held at NETWORKING 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, May 25, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Castellano R, Punzo G, Rocca A (2015) Female Labour Force Participation and Selection Effect: Southern vs Eastern European Countries. In: Morlini I, Minerva T, Vichi M (eds) Advances in Statistical Models for Data Analysis. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 35–43

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

Andrew D (2016) Will Superfast ‘Quantum’ Computers Mean The End Of Unbreakable Encryption? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/will-superfast-quantum-computers-mean-the-end-of-unbreakable-encryption/. 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 (2004) Federal Aviation Administration: Plan Still Needed to Meet Challenges to Effectively Managing Air Traffic Controller Workforce. 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

He C (2005) Advanced Wavelet Application for Video Compression and Video Object Tracking. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio 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

Ayittey GBN (2012) After Revolutions, Beware of Crocodiles. New York Times A23

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Suomalainen 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Burke and Robinson 2012; Suomalainen 2015).

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

Two authors: (Burke and Robinson 2012)
Three or more authors: (Sano et al. 2001)

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