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

Gewin, V., 2007. Count on it. Nature 445, 946–947.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lansbury, P.T., Lashuel, H.A., 2006. A century-old debate on protein aggregation and neurodegeneration enters the clinic. Nature 443, 774–779.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu, D.L., Chan, B., Bush, J.W.M., 2003. The hydrodynamics of water strider locomotion. Nature 424, 663–666.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Toudic, B., Garcia, P., Odin, C., Rabiller, P., Ecolivet, C., Collet, E., Bourges, P., McIntyre, G.J., Hollingsworth, M.D., Breczewski, T., 2008. Hidden degrees of freedom in aperiodic materials. Science 319, 69–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Picard, F., Tanguy, C., 2016. Innovations and Techno-ecological Transition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Tavano, A., 2013. Protocollo MEC: Protocollo Montréal per la valutazione delle abilità comunicative. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Hughes, G., Maher, M., 2016. Redistribution in the Irish Pension System: Upside Down?, in: Murphy, M.P., Dukelow, F. (Eds.), The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Change. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 93–118.

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

Hamilton, K., 2015. How The Brain Can 'Tune” To Specific Smells [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-neurons-control-smell-brain/ (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. D.C. Public School Enrollment (No. AIMD-95-229R). 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

Cano, M., 2015. An in-home visitation program for homebound older adult Veterans: A grant proposal (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

Vecsey, G., 2011. Pujols Won’t Find Unconditional Love Anywhere Else. New York Times B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin, 2007; Lansbury and Lashuel, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Lansbury and Lashuel, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Toudic et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	eTransportation
ISSN (print)	2590-1168
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