How to format your references using the Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal. 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

ORRIT, M. Chemistry. The Motions of an Enzyme Soloist. Science, 2003, 302(5643), pp. 239–240.

A journal article with 2 authors

HIIRAGI, T., SOLTER, D. First Cleavage Plane of the Mouse Egg Is Not Predetermined but Defined by the Topology of the Two Apposing Pronuclei. Nature, 2004, 430(6997), pp. 360–364.

A journal article with 3 authors

RAEBIGER, H., LANY, S., ZUNGER, A. Charge Self-Regulation upon Changing the Oxidation State of Transition Metals in Insulators. Nature, 2008, 453(7196), pp. 763–766.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

HUBER, R., TAUSER, F., BRODSCHELM, A., BICHLER, M., ABSTREITER, G., LEITENSTORFER, A. How Many-Particle Interactions Develop after Ultrafast Excitation of an Electron-Hole Plasma. Nature, 2001, 414(6861), pp. 286–289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

KAPLAN, W. Maxima and Minima with Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998.

An edited book

STOCK, J.A., ESPOSITO, M.P., LANTERI, V.J., ALBALA, D.M.eds. Urologic Robotic Surgery. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

BELING, P.A., LAMBERT, J.H., RAHMAN, F.A., OVERSTREET, G.O., SLUTZKY, D. Systems Analysis and Adaptive Learning for Portfolio Management of Superfund Sites. In MACEY, CANNON, eds. Reclaiming the Land: Rethinking Superfund Institutions, Methods and Practices, pp. 129–168. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2007.

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 Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal.

Blog post

HALE, T. NASA Just Released A GIPHY Page Full Of The Universe’s Best Moving Images [online]. IFLScience, 2016. [cit. 30.10.2018]. <https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-just-released-a-giphy-page-full-of-the-universes-best-moving-images/>.

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. NSF Review: Review Process for the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Pipeline Study. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

WATKINS, J.J. Victor Echo Tango (VET) Support Services Inc. Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

STEWART, J.B. When Politics Roils Market, Tuning Out May Pay Off. New York Times, 2017, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Orrit, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hiiragi, Solter, 2004, Orrit, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hiiragi, Solter, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Huber et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal
ISSN (print)	0322-788x
ISSN (online)	1804-8765
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