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]

Cripton PA. Perspective: Protecting the neck. Nature. 2013;503(7475):S13.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pflamm-Altenburg J, Kroupa P. Clustered star formation as a natural explanation for the Halpha cut-off in disk galaxies. Nature. 2008;455(7213):641–643.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tosi L, Teatini P, Strozzi T. Natural versus anthropogenic subsidence of Venice. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2710.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Alkuraya FS, Saadi I, Lund JJ, et al. SUMO1 haploinsufficiency leads to cleft lip and palate. Science. 2006;313(5794):1751.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Boulanger J-L. Safety Management for Software-based Equipment. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Escalona MJ, Cordeiro J, Shishkov B, editors. Software and Data Technologies: 6th International Conference, ICSOFT 2011, Seville, Spain, July 18-21, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tarantino U, Resmini G. Diagnosi. In: Resmini G, editor. La gestione delle fratture da fragilità ossea: Raccomandazioni per chirurghi ortopedici. Milano: Springer; 2011. p. 9–17.

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. Newly Emerged Island Could Be A “Natural Lab” To Study Evolution. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Bigeye Bomb: An Evaluation of DOD’s Chemical and Developmental Tests. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986. Report No.: PEMD-86-12BR. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Weaver PQ. Relationships between leadership practices of founders and successors and economic performance of select family businesses [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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]

Poniewozik J. A Hero’s Journey Is a Real Head Trip. New York Times. 2017 Feb 7;C1.

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