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

Ball, P., 2008. Water: water--an enduring mystery. Nature 452, 291–292.

A journal article with 2 authors

King, M.-C., Motulsky, A.G., 2002. Human genetics. Mapping human history. Science 298, 2342–2343.

A journal article with 3 authors

Drinnenberg, I.A., Fink, G.R., Bartel, D.P., 2011. Compatibility with killer explains the rise of RNAi-deficient fungi. Science 333, 1592.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Roach, P.J., Woodward, W.H., Castleman, A.W., Jr, Reber, A.C., Khanna, S.N., 2009. Complementary active sites cause size-selective reactivity of aluminum cluster anions with water. Science 323, 492–495.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hasslacher, C., Böhm, S., 2005. Diabetes and the Kidney. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Schalk, G., 2010. A Practical Guide to Brain–Computer Interfacing with BCI2000: General-Purpose Software for Brain–Computer Interface Research, Data Acquisition, Stimulus Presentation, and Brain Monitoring. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Gee, G., 2012. The Persistent Politics of Judicial Selection: A Comparative Analysis, in: Seibert-Fohr, A. (Ed.), Judicial Independence in Transition, Beiträge Zum Ausländischen Öffentlichen Recht Und Völkerrecht. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 121–145.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Astronomers Spot Planet Forming [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2001. Information Technology: State Department Led Overseas Modernization Program Faces Management Challenges (No. GAO-02-41). 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

Love, K.S., 2010. Factors infleuncing job satisfaction in nurses (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

Billard, M., 2010. Framing a Statement. New York Times E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ball, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Ball, 2008; King and Motulsky, 2002).

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

Two authors: (King and Motulsky, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Roach et al., 2009)

About the journal

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