How to format your references using the EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics. 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

Robinson GE (2004) Genomics. Beyond nature and nurture. Science 304:397–399

A journal article with 2 authors

Arokiaraj MC, Palacios IF (2014) Finite element modeling of a novel self-expanding endovascular stent method in treatment of aortic aneurysms. Sci Rep 4:3630

A journal article with 3 authors

Losos JB, Schoener TW, Spiller DA (2004) Predator-induced behaviour shifts and natural selection in field-experimental lizard populations. Nature 432:505–508

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Takasugi N, Tomita T, Hayashi I, et al (2003) The role of presenilin cofactors in the gamma-secretase complex. Nature 422:438–441

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Campbell CA (2008) The One-Page Project Manager for it Projects. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gill TL (2016) Functional Analysis and the Feynman Operator Calculus. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kouzapas D, Philippou A (2014) A Typing System for Privacy. In: Counsell S, Núñez M (eds) Software Engineering and Formal Methods: SEFM 2013 Collocated Workshops: BEAT2, WS-FMDS, FM-RAIL-Bok, MoKMaSD, and OpenCert, Madrid, Spain, September 23-24, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 56–68

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 EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) DNA Tests Show Elephant Ivory Poaching has Two Main Hotspots. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/elephant-ivory-poaching-has-two-main-hotspots/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2002) Information Technology: OMB Leadership Critical to Making Needed Enterprise Architecture and E-government Progress. 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

Milner M (2009) An evaluation of the influence of case method instruction on the reflective thinking of MSW students. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Santora M, Baker AL (2017) Despite Strict Gun Law, Doctor Was Able to Buy Assault Rifle. New York Times A15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Robinson 2004; Arokiaraj and Palacios 2014).

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

Two authors: (Arokiaraj and Palacios 2014)
Three or more authors: (Takasugi et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics
ISSN (print)	2192-4376
ISSN (online)	2192-4384
Scope	Management Science and Operations Research Modelling and Simulation Transportation