How to format your references using the Statistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Statistics. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Siegel JM. Evolution. Suppression of sleep for mating. Science. 2012;337(6102):1610–1611.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lin Y, Zhang Z. Controlling the efficiency of trapping in a scale-free small-world network. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6274.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ohmoto H, Watanabe Y, Kumazawa K. Evidence from massive siderite beds for a CO2-rich atmosphere before approximately 1.8 billion years ago. Nature. 2004;429(6990):395–399.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Gaggiotti OE, Jones F, Lee WM, et al. Patterns of colonization in a metapopulation of grey seals. Nature. 2002;416(6879):424–427.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Desmond KK. Ideas about Art. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Liang Y. Silicon in Agriculture: From Theory to Practice. Nikolic M, Bélanger R, Gong H, et al., editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Phillips C, Raynel S, Curtis J, et al. The Efficacy of Path Loss Models for Fixed Rural Wireless Links. In: Spring N, Riley GF, editors. Passive and Active Measurement: 12th International Conference, PAM 2011, Atlanta, GA, USA, March 20-22, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 42–51.

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 Statistics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. India’s Tiger Population Is Up 30% Since 2010 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/conservation-success-india-s-tiger-population-30-2010/.

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. Procedures for Evaluating Research and Development Contracts in the Department of Transportation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978. Report No.: PSAD-78-110. .

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bontrager JG. Characterization and Applications for A Polymerized DiaCEST Contrast Agent [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2015.

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]

Shear MD. President Questions Clinton Ties To Russia. New York Times. 2017 Jun 15;A19.

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	Statistics
Abbreviation	Statistics (Ber.)
ISSN (print)	0233-1888
ISSN (online)	1029-4910
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Statistics and Probability