How to format your references using the Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics. 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

Sanderson K (2007) Nanotech growing pains. Nature 446:963

A journal article with 2 authors

Olsen SR, Wilson RI (2008) Lateral presynaptic inhibition mediates gain control in an olfactory circuit. Nature 452:956–960

A journal article with 3 authors

Arash B, Wang Q, Varadan VK (2014) Mechanical properties of carbon nanotube/polymer composites. Sci Rep 4:6479

A journal article with 5 or more authors

David CJ, Chen M, Assanah M, et al (2010) HnRNP proteins controlled by c-Myc deregulate pyruvate kinase mRNA splicing in cancer. Nature 463:364–368

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Estampe D (2014) Supply Chain Performance and Evaluation Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Yeung D-Y, Kwok JT, Fred A, et al (eds) (2006) Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition: Joint IAPR International Workshops, SSPR 2006 and SPR 2006, Hong Kong, China, August 17-19, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hall OP, Mooney JG (2010) Hybrid Learning Systems: Meeting the Challenges of Graduate Management Education. In: Tsang P, Cheung SKS, Lee VSK, Huang R (eds) Hybrid Learning: Third International Conference, ICHL 2010, Beijing, China, August 16-18, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–48

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 Indian Society for Probability and Statistics.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) The EU Wants To Make All Scientific Papers Free To Access By 2020. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/eu-wants-make-all-scientific-papers-free-use-2020/. 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 (2016) NASA: Preliminary Observations on Major Acquisition Projects and Management Challenges. 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

Marcheschi RL (2010) Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding individuals with epilepsy by marriage and family therapists and social workers. 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

Vecsey G (2011) Millrose to Give a Spotlight to Decathletes. New York Times B16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sanderson 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Sanderson 2007; Olsen and Wilson 2008).

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

Two authors: (Olsen and Wilson 2008)
Three or more authors: (David et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics
ISSN (online)	2364-9569
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