How to format your references using the eTransportation citation style

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

Kelley, K.A., 2014. Geophysics. Inside Earth runs hot and cold. Science 344, 51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alkhatib, A., Nayfeh, A., 2013. A complete physical germanium-on-silicon quantum dot self-assembly process. Sci. Rep. 3, 2099.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frebel, A., Kirby, E.N., Simon, J.D., 2010. Linking dwarf galaxies to halo building blocks with the most metal-poor star in Sculptor. Nature 464, 72–75.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rupert, P.B., Massey, A.P., Sigurdsson, S.T., Ferré-D’Amaré, A.R., 2002. Transition state stabilization by a catalytic RNA. Science 298, 1421–1424.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell, D., 2009. Building Contract Claims. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Battiato, S., Blanc-Talon, J., Gallo, G., Philips, W., Popescu, D., Scheunders, P. (Eds.), 2015. Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 16th International Conference, ACIVS 2015, Catania, Italy, October 26-29, 2015. Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015. ed, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ismail-Zadeh, A., Korotkii, A., Tsepelev, I., 2016. Quasi-Reversibility Method and Its Applications, in: Korotkii, A., Tsepelev, I. (Eds.), Data-Driven Numerical Modelling in Geodynamics: Methods and Applications, SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 59–82.

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 eTransportation.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. World’s First 3D-Printed Plane Unveiled By Airbus [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-first-3dprinted-plane-unveiled-by-airbus/ (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, 1995. Weather Forecasting: Unmet Needs and Unknown Costs Warrant Reassessment of Observing System Plans (No. AIMD-95-81). 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

Raines, J.R., 2010. Exploring differences in teacher attitudes and instructional strategies between traditional and block schedule high schools: A comparison of two large schools (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

Vecsey, G., 2011. Back to Brooklyn for a U.S. Eagle. New York Times SP10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kelley, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Alkhatib and Nayfeh, 2013; Kelley, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Alkhatib and Nayfeh, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Rupert et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	eTransportation
ISSN (print)	2590-1168
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