How to format your references using the Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Buston, P. (2003). Social hierarchies: size and growth modification in clownfish. Nature, 424(6945), 145–146.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parnell, R. J., & Buchanan-Smith, H. M. (2001). Animal behaviour. An unusual social display by gorillas. Nature, 412(6844), 294.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sobolev, A. V., Hofmann, A. W., & Nikogosian, I. K. (2000). Recycled oceanic crust observed in “ghost plagioclase” within the source of Mauna Loa lavas. Nature, 404(6781), 986–990.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jo, Y., Jung, K., Kim, J., Woo, H., Han, J., Kim, H., et al. (2014). Resistance switching mode transformation in SrRuO3/Cr-doped SrZrO3/Pt frameworks via a thermally activated Ti out-diffusion process. Scientific reports, 4, 7354.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rogstad, D. H., Mileant, A., & Pham, T. T. (2005). Antenna Arraying Techniques in the Deep Space Network. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dolev, S., Cobb, J., Fischer, M., & Yung, M. (Eds.). (2010). Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems: 12th International Symposium, SSS 2010, New York, NY, USA, September 20-22, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6366). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Erdmann, M., Nguyen, D. D., Takeyoshi, T., Hattori, G., Matsumoto, K., & Ono, C. (2012). Hierarchical Training of Multiple SVMs for Personalized Web Filtering. In P. Anthony, M. Ishizuka, & D. Lukose (Eds.), PRICAI 2012: Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Kuching, Malaysia, September 3-7, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 27–39). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, November 7). The Evidence Of Early Human Life In Australia’s Arid Interior. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-evidence-of-early-human-life-in-australias-arid-interior/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1982). Inquiry Into Allegations of Improprieties at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (No. FPCD-83-23). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sanute, P. J. (2012). What power? A mixed methods study of nonformal education teacher perceptions of social power (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Vecsey, G. (2009, November 7). Amid Celebrations And the Cheers, Cashman Reflects. New York Times, p. D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buston 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Buston 2003; Parnell and Buchanan-Smith 2001).

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

Two authors: (Parnell and Buchanan-Smith 2001)
Three or more authors: (Jo et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Abbreviation	Ann. Inst. Stat. Math.
ISSN (print)	0020-3157
ISSN (online)	1572-9052
Scope	Statistics and Probability