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

Holman CM (2008) Genetics. Trends in human gene patent litigation. Science 322:198–199

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahmed WW, Saif TA (2014) Active transport of vesicles in neurons is modulated by mechanical tension. Sci Rep 4:4481

A journal article with 3 authors

Patek SN, Korff WL, Caldwell RL (2004) Biomechanics: deadly strike mechanism of a mantis shrimp. Nature 428:819–820

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Velcich A, Yang W, Heyer J, et al (2002) Colorectal cancer in mice genetically deficient in the mucin Muc2. Science 295:1726–1729

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cronin R (2012) Reading Victorian Poetry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Soh K-S, Kang KA, Harrison DK (2012) The Primo Vascular System: Its Role in Cancer and Regeneration, 1st ed. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Nagamachi M (2006) Kansei Engineering and Rough Sets Model. In: Greco S, Hata Y, Hirano S, et al (eds) Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing: 5th International Conference, RSCTC 2006 Kobe, Japan, November 6-8, 2006 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 27–37

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) How Do Archaeologists Discover Forgotten Ancient Monuments? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-do-archaeologists-discover-forgotten-ancient-monuments/. 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 (1985) Pell Grant Validation Imposes Some Costs and Does Not Greatly Reduce Award Errors: New Strategies Are Needed. 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

Lieberman DS (2017) “Stroke Your Thoroughbreds and Kick Your Donkeys”: Power and the Secondary Administrative Distribution of Teaching Assignments. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Burghardt LF (2006) Mutiny in the Harbor: One Ship Too Many. New York Times 14LI9

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