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

Moltz JC (2011) Technology: Asia’s space race. Nature 480:171–173

A journal article with 2 authors

Eichler EE, Sankoff D (2003) Structural dynamics of eukaryotic chromosome evolution. Science 301:793–797

A journal article with 3 authors

MacLehose L, McKee M, Weinberg J (2002) Responding to the challenge of communicable disease in Europe. Science 295:2047–2050

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Belonoshko AB, Ramzan M, Mao H-K, Ahuja R (2013) Atomic diffusion in solid molecular hydrogen. Sci Rep 3:2340

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

German Concrete and Construction Cl (2011) Beispiele zur Bemessung Nach Eurocode 2. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

O’Mathúna DP, Gordijn B, Clarke M (2014) Disaster Bioethics: Normative Issues When Nothing is Normal: Normative Issues When Nothing is Normal. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Angarone M (2014) Fungal Infections in Cancer Patients. In: Stosor V, Zembower TR (eds) Infectious Complications in Cancer Patients. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 129–155

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

Andrew E (2015) Number of Measles Cases Linked To Disneyland Continues To Grow. In: IFLScience. 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 (1977) Examination of Disbursing Officer’s Account, U.S. Army Aviation Center and School, Ft. Rucker, Alabama. 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

McCallum-Bonar C (2008) Black Ashkenaz And the Almost Promised Land: Yiddish Literature and the Harlem Renaissance. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Kelly M (1992) The Surrounding Scene; It Seemed Like Donahue. But With Bush, Clinton and Perot, It Sure Wasn’t. New York Times A9

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