How to format your references using the TEST citation style

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

Wickware P (2000) US minorities stake their claim in science and engineering. Nature 405:717–718

A journal article with 2 authors

Ramocki MB, Zoghbi HY (2008) Failure of neuronal homeostasis results in common neuropsychiatric phenotypes. Nature 455:912–918

A journal article with 3 authors

Arantes-Oliveira N, Berman JR, Kenyon C (2003) Healthy animals with extreme longevity. Science 302:611

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ito H, Yamada R, Tamura A, et al (2013) Earth’s youngest exposed granite and its tectonic implications: the 10-0.8 Ma Kurobegawa Granite. Sci Rep 3:1306

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wittcoff HA, Reuben BG, Plotkin JS (2012) Industrial Organic Chemicals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Moriarty P, Gauthier S (eds) (2015) Imaging and Manipulation of Adsorbates Using Dynamic Force Microscopy: Proceedings from the AtMol Conference Series, Nottingham, UK, April 16-17, 2013. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Wang V, Carayannis EG (2012) Results. In: Carayannis EG (ed) Promoting Balanced Competitiveness Strategies of Firms in Developing Countries. Springer, New York, NY, pp 73–89

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 TEST.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Urban Algae Farm Gobbles Up Highway Air Pollution. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/urban-algae-farm-gobbles-highway-air-pollution/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1989) Commercial Fishing Vessel: Administration of the Colintino Rose II Loan Guarantee. 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

Dinneny PN (2017) End of August. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly S (1995) Children’s Books. New York Times 723

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wickware 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Wickware 2000; Ramocki and Zoghbi 2008).

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

Two authors: (Ramocki and Zoghbi 2008)
Three or more authors: (Ito et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	TEST
Abbreviation	Test (Madr.)
ISSN (print)	1133-0686
ISSN (online)	1863-8260
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Statistics and Probability

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