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]

Cowburn RP. Applied physics. Where have all the transistors gone? Science. 2006;311:183–184.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gerson AR, Guglielmo CG. Flight at low ambient humidity increases protein catabolism in migratory birds. Science. 2011;333:1434–1436.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Al-Zaid FS, Alhader AA, Al-Ayadhi LY. Altered ghrelin levels in boys with autism: a novel finding associated with hormonal dysregulation. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6478.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Stone MD, Mihalusova M, O’connor CM, et al. Stepwise protein-mediated RNA folding directs assembly of telomerase ribonucleoprotein. Nature. 2007;446:458–461.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schober H. Transparent Shells. Berlin, Germany: Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Zhao Y. Multi-band Polarization Imaging and Applications. 1st ed. 2016. Yi C, Kong SG, Pan Q, et al., editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Flaxman M, Vargas-Moreno JC. Using “Spatial Resilience Planning” to Test Climate-Adaptive Conservation Strategies. In: Karl HA, Scarlett L, Vargas-Moreno JC, et al., editors. Restoring Lands - Coordinating Science, Politics and Action: Complexities of Climate and Governance. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 57–83.

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. Meet The Wild Animals Who Put Their Partners First (Just Don’t Call It Love). 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. Aviation and the Environment: FAA’s and NASA’s Research and Development Plans for Noise Reduction Are Aligned but the Prospects of Achieving Noise Reduction Goals Are Uncertain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008. Report No.: GAO-08-384. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hawkins AJ. Measurement of the spacial distribution of heat exchange in a geothermal analog bedrock site using fiber-otic distributed temperature sensing [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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]

Greenhouse L. Court Upholds Child Pornography Law, Despite Free Speech Concerns. New York Times. 2008 May 20;A17.

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

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