How to format your references using the European Transport Research Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Transport Research Review. 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

Butterworth A (2014) The moral problem with commercial seal hunting. Nature 509:9

A journal article with 2 authors

De Yoreo JJ, Dove PM (2004) Materials science. Shaping crystals with biomolecules. Science 306:1301–1302

A journal article with 3 authors

Rössler UK, Bogdanov AN, Pfleiderer C (2006) Spontaneous skyrmion ground states in magnetic metals. Nature 442:797–801

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Varoon K, Zhang X, Elyassi B, et al (2011) Dispersible exfoliated zeolite nanosheets and their application as a selective membrane. Science 334:72–75

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raeburn D (2016) Greek Tragedies as Plays for Performance. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Atluri V (2008) Data and Applications Security XXII: 22nd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security London, UK, July 13-16, 2008 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

López VGR (2011) What Maisie Knew in What Maisie Knew. In: Tymieniecka A-T (ed) Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 43–69

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 European Transport Research Review.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2015) The UK Wants To Blacklist Homeopathy. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/england-wales-could-blacklist-homeopathy/. 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 (1981) Opportunities Still Exist To Better Use the Mint’s Data Processing Center. 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

James M (2014) Numerical Study of Plateau-Rayleigh Instability. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Urbina I (2016) Rising Seas Turn Coastal Houses Into a Gamble. New York Times A1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	European Transport Research Review
Abbreviation	Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1867-0717
ISSN (online)	1866-8887
Scope	Automotive Engineering Mechanical Engineering Transportation