How to format your references using the Journal of the American Statistical Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA). 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

Gilbert, N. (2009), “Who speaks for science in Europe?,” Nature, 460, 672–673.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feldl, N., and Bilham, R. (2006), “Great Himalayan earthquakes and the Tibetan plateau,” Nature, 444, 165–170.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fortes, A. D., Suard, E., and Knight, K. S. (2011), “Negative linear compressibility and massive anisotropic thermal expansion in methanol monohydrate,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 331, 742–746.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cao, G., Feng, H., Guo, F., Wu, K., Li, X., Liang, G., and Desneux, N. (2014), “Quantitative analysis of fitness costs associated with the development of resistance to the Bt toxin Cry1Ac in Helicoverpa armigera,” Scientific reports, 4, 5629.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin, W. C. (2014), Wave Propagation in Drilling, Well Logging and Reservoir Applications, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Islam, M. T., Rahman, M., Pandey, P., Jha, C. K., and Aeron, A. (eds.) (2016), Bacilli and Agrobiotechnology, Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Rivera-Rubio, J., Idrees, S., Alexiou, I., Hadjilucas, L., and Bharath, A. A. (2013), “Mobile Visual Assistive Apps: Benchmarks of Vision Algorithm Performance,” in New Trends in Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2013: ICIAP 2013 International Workshops, Naples, Italy, September 9-13, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, eds. A. Petrosino, L. Maddalena, and P. Pala, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 30–40.

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 the American Statistical Association.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2015), “Spectacular Rainbow Cloud Spotted In Jamaican Sky,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Available athttps://www.iflscience.com/environment/spectacular-rainbow-cloud-spotted-jamaican-sky/.

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 (2003), Head Start: Increased Percentage of Teachers Nationwide Have Required Degrees, but Better Information on Classroom Teachers’ Qualifications Needed, 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

Teeter, C. M. (2010), “Characterizing the Spatial Density Functions of Neural Arbors,” Doctoral dissertation, La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Martin, J., and Burns, A. (2016), “G.O.P. Candidates Aiming to Escape Trump’s Shadow,” New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gilbert 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Feldl and Bilham 2006; Gilbert 2009).

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

Two authors: (Feldl and Bilham 2006)
Three or more authors: (Cao et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the American Statistical Association
Abbreviation	J. Am. Stat. Assoc.
ISSN (print)	0162-1459
ISSN (online)	1537-274X
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Statistics and Probability