How to format your references using the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (JRSS). 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

Abbott, A. (2002) A physical response to architecture. Nature, 420, 126.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kirchmaier, A. L. and Rine, J. (2001) DNA replication-independent silencing in S. cerevisiae. Science, 291, 646–650.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, D. R., Galluzzi, L. and Kroemer, G. (2014) Cell biology. Metabolic control of cell death. Science, 345, 1250256.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reay, D., Sabine, C., Smith, P., et al. (2007) Climate change 2007: spring-time for sinks. Nature, 446, 727–728.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diab, W. W. and Frazier, H. M. (2011) Ethernet in the First Mile. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mavroudis, C. and Backer, C. L. (eds) (2015) Atlas of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. 1st ed. 2016. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Prandtstetter, M., Ritzinger, U., Schmidt, P., et al. (2015) A Variable Neighborhood Search Approach for the Interdependent Lock Scheduling Problem. In Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 15th European Conference, EvoCOP 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 8-10, 2015, Proceedings (eds G. Ochoa and F. Chicano), pp. 36–47. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Royal Statistical Society.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015) Sleeping On Your Side Is Good For Your Brain. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/sleeping-your-side-could-help-your-brain-clear-out-waste-chemicals/ (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 (1999) Student Loans: Default Rates Need To Be Computed More Appropriately. HEHS-99-135, 28 July. 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

Runyan, T. E. (2017) A Machine Learning Approach to Quantifying Likely Locations of Gas and Gas Hydrate Accumulation. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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. (2016) A Hockey Luminary Glowed With Modesty. New York Times, 11 June.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2002; Kirchmaier and Rine, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Kirchmaier and Rine, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Reay et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
ISSN (print)	0964-1998
ISSN (online)	1467-985X
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