How to format your references using the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 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 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

[1]

Hyatt LA. IBI* series winner. Personal plants: making botany meaningful by experimentation. Science. 2012;337(6102):1620–1621.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rashid H, Boyle EA. Mixed-layer deepening during Heinrich events: a multi-planktonic foraminiferal delta18O approach. Science. 2007;318(5849):439–441.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Anderson PW, Brinkman WF, Huse DA. Thermodynamics of an incommensurate quantum crystal. Science. 2005;310(5751):1164–1166.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Gleyzes S, Kuhr S, Guerlin C, et al. Quantum jumps of light recording the birth and death of a photon in a cavity. Nature. 2007;446(7133):297–300.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Perez A. IP, Ethernet and MPLS Networks. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Jung JJ, Badica C, Kiss A, editors. Scalable Information Systems: 5th International Conference, INFOSCALE 2014, Seoul, South Korea, September 25-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Koch G, Rapp M, Kröger N. Harnessing the Innovation Potential of Citizens: How Open Innovation Can be Used to Co-develop Political Strategies. In: Pfeffermann N, Minshall T, Mortara L, editors. Strategy and Communication for Innovation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 63–83.

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 Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. How Other Primates Self-Medicate – And What They Could Teach Us [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-other-primates-self-medicate-and-what-they-could-teach-us/.

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. A List of Selected GAO Publications Containing Checklists or Guidance on Computer Software Topics. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984. Report No.: 125250. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Davidson JM. Transitional age youth—a program expansion to enhance existing services in Sonoma County: A grant-writing project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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]

David Goodman J, Schweber N. Gunman Kills One and Wounds Two Near Penn Station. New York Times. 2015 Nov 10;A19.

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	Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
Abbreviation	J. Stat. Comput. Simul.
ISSN (print)	0094-9655
ISSN (online)	1563-5163
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation Statistics and Probability