How to format your references using the Case Studies on Transport Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Case Studies on Transport Policy. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Harris, J., 2009. Soil microbial communities and restoration ecology: facilitators or followers? Science 325, 573–574.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mathieu, R.D., Geller, A.M., 2009. A binary star fraction of 76 per cent and unusual orbit parameters for the blue stragglers of NGC 188. Nature 462, 1032–1035.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tewksbury, J.J., Huey, R.B., Deutsch, C.A., 2008. Ecology. Putting the heat on tropical animals. Science 320, 1296–1297.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Whelan, E.T., Ray, T.P., Bacciotti, F., Natta, A., Testi, L., Randich, S., 2005. A resolved outflow of matter from a brown dwarf. Nature 435, 652–654.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Staudt, G., 2001. Experimentalphysik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Nova, I., Tronconi, E. (Eds.), 2014. Urea-SCR Technology for deNOx After Treatment of Diesel Exhausts, Fundamental and Applied Catalysis. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Watkins, R.G., 2015. Anterior Medial Approach to C1, C2, and C3, in: Watkins, R.G., III, Watkins, R.G., IV (Eds.), Surgical Approaches to the Spine. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 27–32.

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 Case Studies on Transport Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2016. The Possible Cause Of Flashbacks Discovered [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/possible-cause-flashbacks-discovered/ (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, 1989. Computer Systems: Types and Sources of Department of State Lookout Records (No. IMTEC-89-71FS). 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

Le, D., 2015. L.A. Children’s Music Therapy Center, LLC (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

McKINLEY, J.C., Jr., Baker, A.L., Southall, A., 2016. Grandmother’s Killing Lays Bare Dilemma in Child Welfare Work. 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 (Harris, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Harris, 2009; Mathieu and Geller, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Mathieu and Geller, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Whelan et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Case Studies on Transport Policy
ISSN (print)	2213-624X
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Transportation Urban Studies