How to format your references using the Statistical Papers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Statistical Papers. 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

Minelli A (2004) Developmental biology. Bits and pieces. Science 306:1693–1694

A journal article with 2 authors

Ren W, Cheng H-M (2013) Materials science: when two is better than one. Nature 497:448–449

A journal article with 3 authors

Conrad CP, Steinberger B, Torsvik TH (2013) Stability of active mantle upwelling revealed by net characteristics of plate tectonics. Nature 498:479–482

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Adams WM, Brockington D, Dyson J, Vira B (2003) Managing tragedies: understanding conflict over common pool resources. Science 302:1915–1916

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sellars C (2011) Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Maltoni D (2009) Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Matsumoto T, Sugita S, Yaguchi T (2015) Biomechanics of Blood Vessels: Structure, Mechanics, and Adaptation. In: Niinomi M, Narushima T, Nakai M (eds) Advances in Metallic Biomaterials: Tissues, Materials and Biological Reactions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 71–98

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 Statistical Papers.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Curiosity Takes “Low-Angle” Selfie. In: IFLScience. 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 (1991) Tax Systems Modernization: Private Sector Modernization Efforts IRS May Want to Examine. 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

Briseno AR (2015) Improving school performance through family involvement: A grant project. 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

Billard M (2013) Scrooge Has a Sense of Humor. New York Times E13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Minelli 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Minelli 2004; Ren and Cheng 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ren and Cheng 2013)
Three or more authors: (Adams et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Statistical Papers
Abbreviation	Stat. Pap. (Berl)
ISSN (print)	0932-5026
ISSN (online)	1613-9798
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Statistics and Probability