How to format your references using the Economics of Transportation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Economics of Transportation. 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

Horton, B., 2002. Applications matter. Nature 416, 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aqvist, J., Luzhkov, V., 2000. Ion permeation mechanism of the potassium channel. Nature 404, 881–884.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shanavas, K.V., Parker, D., Singh, D.J., 2014. Theoretical study on the role of dynamics on the unusual magnetic properties in MnBi. Sci. Rep. 4, 7222.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Parikshak, N.N., Swarup, V., Belgard, T.G., Irimia, M., Ramaswami, G., Gandal, M.J., Hartl, C., Leppa, V., de la Torre Ubieta, L., Huang, J., Lowe, J.K., Blencowe, B.J., Horvath, S., Geschwind, D.H., 2018. Author Correction: Genome-wide changes in lncRNA, splicing, and regional gene expression patterns in autism. Nature 560, E30.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rajagopal, R., 2014. Sustainable Value Creation in the Fine and Speciality Chemicals Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Frühwirth-Schnatter, S., Bitto, A., Kastner, G., Posekany, A. (Eds.), 2015. Bayesian Statistics from Methods to Models and Applications: Research from BAYSM 2014, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, X., Tian, N., 2009. Performance Analysis of an M/M/1 Working Vacation Queue with Setup Times, in: Yue, W., Takahashi, Y., Takagi, H. (Eds.), Advances in Queueing Theory and Network Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 65–76.

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 Economics of Transportation.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Gusev Crater On Mars Was Once a Lake [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/gusev-crater-mars-was-once-lake/ (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, 2004. School Meal Programs: Competitive Foods Are Available in Many Schools; Actions Taken to Restrict Them Differ by State and Locality (No. GAO-04-673). 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

Ward, V.J., 2015. A study of the perceptions of first-year teachers as prepared classroom teachers (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Corkery, M., Protess, B., 2016. How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer. 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 (Horton, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Aqvist and Luzhkov, 2000; Horton, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Aqvist and Luzhkov, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Parikshak et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economics of Transportation
Abbreviation	Econ. Transp.
ISSN (print)	2212-0122
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Transportation