How to format your references using the Statistical Science citation style

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

[1]

McGill, B. J. (2003). A test of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity. Nature 422 881–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hemmer, P. and Wrachtrup, J. (2009). Physics. Where is my quantum computer? Science 324 473–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jaramillo, C., Rueda, M. J. and Mora, G. (2006). Cenozoic plant diversity in the neotropics. Science 311 1893–6.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Virtanen, A., Joutsensaari, J., Koop, T., Kannosto, J., Yli-Pirilä, P., Leskinen, J., Mäkelä, J. M., Holopainen, J. K., Pöschl, U., Kulmala, M., Worsnop, D. R. and Laaksonen, A. (2010). An amorphous solid state of biogenic secondary organic aerosol particles. Nature 467 824–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Putt, A. (2006). Putt’s Law & the Successful Technocrat. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Morlini, I., Minerva, T. and Vichi, M. (2015). Advances in Statistical Models for Data Analysis. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ohkita, M., Tokutaka, H., Ohki, M., Oyabu, M. and Fujimura, K. (2013). Classification of Chain-Link and Other Data with Spherical SOM. In Advances in Self-Organizing Maps: 9th International Workshop, WSOM 2012 Santiago, Chile, December 12-14, 2012 Proceedings Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (P. A. Estévez, J. C. Príncipe and P. Zegers, ed) pp 35–44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Science.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti, A. (2016). This “Frankenstein” Galaxy Is Made Up Of Bits Of Other Galaxies.IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-frankenstein-galaxy-is-made-up-of-bits-of-other-galaxies/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. (2005). NASA: Implementing a Knowledge-Based Acquisition Framework Could Lead to Better Investment Decisions and Project Outcomes. 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

[1]

Tang, D. (2009). Event detection in sensor networks. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

[1]

Murphy, M. J. O. (2010). By Boat or Rail, East Egg to West, ‘Gatsby’ Beckons. New York Times C35.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Statistical Science
ISSN (print)	0883-4237
ISSN (online)	2168-8745
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