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

Cruikshank DP (2010) Planetary science. Generating an atmosphere. Science 330:1755–1756

A journal article with 2 authors

Weston EM, Lister AM (2009) Insular dwarfism in hippos and a model for brain size reduction in Homo floresiensis. Nature 459:85–88

A journal article with 3 authors

Parkinson GN, Lee MPH, Neidle S (2002) Crystal structure of parallel quadruplexes from human telomeric DNA. Nature 417:876–880

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yang HW, Zhang HR, Li Y, et al (2014) Anomalous magnetism in strained La(1-x)Sr(x)CoO3 epitaxial films (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.5). Sci Rep 4:6206

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Basset P, Blokhina E, Galayko D (2016) Electrostatic Kinetic Energy Harvesting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Taniguchi M (2014) Statistical Inference for Financial Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Almeida Matos A (2009) Flow Policy Awareness for Distributed Mobile Code. In: Bravetti M, Zavattaro G (eds) CONCUR 2009 - Concurrency Theory: 20th International Conference, CONCUR 2009, Bologna, Italy, September 1-4, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 53–68

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 E (2013) 6-million-year-old human ancestor was bipedal, yet lived in the trees. 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 (2016) National Mediation Board: Progress Made on Some GAO Recommendations to Strengthen Operations, but Key Controls Continue to Be Needed. 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

Hutson MD (2015) Three Essays on Macroeconomic Forecasting. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Poniewozik J (2017) Rap Lyrics Lost in Translation. New York Times C6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cruikshank 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Weston and Lister 2009; Cruikshank 2010).

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

Two authors: (Weston and Lister 2009)
Three or more authors: (Yang 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