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

Ott S (2011) Chemistry. Ironing out hydrogen storage. Science 333:1714–1715

A journal article with 2 authors

Trumbore SE, Czimczik CI (2008) Geology. An uncertain future for soil carbon. Science 321:1455–1456

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsushita T, Mochizuki N, Nagatani A (2003) Dimers of the N-terminal domain of phytochrome B are functional in the nucleus. Nature 424:571–574

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kato T, Inagaki H, Yamada K, et al (2006) Genetic variation affects de novo translocation frequency. Science 311:971

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tannenbaum LV (2013) Alternative Ecological Risk Assessment. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Redington AN, Arsdell GSV, Anderson RH (eds) (2009) Congenital Diseases in the Right Heart. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang C, Xia C, Wang H, Li X (2013) On the Spatial-temporal Reachability of DTNs. In: Su J, Zhao B, Sun Z, et al. (eds) Frontiers in Internet Technologies: Second CCF Internet Conference of China, ICoC 2013, Zhangjiajie, China, July 10, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 40–49

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 (2015) Why Everyone Should Embrace Their Inner Sloth. In: IFLScience. 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 (1991) Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 4. 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

Lu W-Y (2012) The performance practice of Buddhist baiqi in contemporary Taiwan. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Stevens M (2017) Dating Services Move To Block Extremists. New York Times B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ott 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Trumbore and Czimczik 2008; Ott 2011).

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

Two authors: (Trumbore and Czimczik 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kato et al. 2006)

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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