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

Sharp, K.A., 2014. Biochemistry. Protein folding, interrupted. Science 343, 743–744.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wiseman, B.S., Werb, Z., 2002. Stromal effects on mammary gland development and breast cancer. Science 296, 1046–1049.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, A., Lauher, J.W., Goroff, N.S., 2006. Preparation of poly(diiododiacetylene), an ordered conjugated polymer of carbon and iodine. Science 312, 1030–1034.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chassagneux, Y., Colombelli, R., Maineult, W., Barbieri, S., Beere, H.E., Ritchie, D.A., Khanna, S.P., Linfield, E.H., Davies, A.G., 2009. Electrically pumped photonic-crystal terahertz lasers controlled by boundary conditions. Nature 457, 174–178.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tschannen-Moran, B., Tschannen-Moran, M., 2010. Evocative Coaching. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, USA.

An edited book

Forte, B. (Ed.), 2011. Functional Equations and Inequalities, C.I.M.E. Summer Schools. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Backhouse, R., 2008. The Capacity-C Torch Problem, in: Audebaud, P., Paulin-Mohring, C. (Eds.), Mathematics of Program Construction: 9th International Conference, MPC 2008, Marseille, France, July 15-18, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–78.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Mummy CT Scans Show That Pharaohs Were Misdiagnosed [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, 1984. Participation in the National School Lunch Program (No. RCED-84-132). 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

Annan, F., 2012. Spatial pattern of yield distributions: implications for crop insurance (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Herrman, J., 2017. What Will Service Work Look Like Under Amazon? New York Times MM16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sharp, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Sharp, 2014; Wiseman and Werb, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Wiseman and Werb, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Chassagneux et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	eTransportation
ISSN (print)	2590-1168
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