How to format your references using the Spatial Statistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Spatial 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

Stockman, M.I., 2015. Applied optics. Nanoplasmonic sensing and detection. Science 348, 287–288.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lieberman, M.D., Eisenberger, N.I., 2009. Neuroscience. Pains and pleasures of social life. Science 323, 890–891.

A journal article with 3 authors

Qi, Y., Dolgushev, M., Zhang, Z., 2014. Dynamics of semiflexible recursive small-world polymer networks. Sci. Rep. 4, 7576.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Biscaras, J., Hurand, S., Feuillet-Palma, C., Rastogi, A., Budhani, R.C., Reyren, N., Lesne, E., Lesueur, J., Bergeal, N., 2014. Limit of the electrostatic doping in two-dimensional electron gases of LaXO₃(X = Al, Ti)/SrTiO₃. Sci. Rep. 4, 6788.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kindmann, R., Kraus, M., 2012. Steel Structures. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany.

An edited book

Sanford, J.F., 2012. Localization in Wireless Networks: Foundations and Applications. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Kiltz, U., Gossec, L., Baraliakos, X., Braun, J., 2016. PROMs for Spondyloarthritis, in: El Miedany, Y. (Ed.), Patient Reported Outcome Measures in Rheumatic Diseases. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 121–147.

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 Spatial Statistics.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. A Supervolcano Stopped An Earthquake Dead In Its Tracks In Japan This Year [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/supervolcano-stopped-earthquake-dead-tracks-japan-this-year/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1994. Education Finance: Extent of Federal Funding in State Education Agencies (No. HEHS-95-3). 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

Tang, J., 2013. Understanding the college experiences of Cambodian American students (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Sisario, B., 2016. Big Opening for J. Cole as Album Makes No. 1. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stockman, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lieberman and Eisenberger, 2009; Stockman, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lieberman and Eisenberger, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Biscaras et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Spatial Statistics
Abbreviation	Spat. Stat.
ISSN (print)	2211-6753
Scope