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

Shaw R (2009) Journal club. A cancer researcher ponders a fundamental connection between nutrients and gene expression. Nature 462:829

A journal article with 2 authors

Welker J, Giessibl FJ (2012) Revealing the angular symmetry of chemical bonds by atomic force microscopy. Science 336:444–449

A journal article with 3 authors

Simiyu K, Daar AS, Singer PA (2010) Global health. Stagnant health technologies in Africa. Science 330:1483–1484

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Goldstone DC, Ennis-Adeniran V, Hedden JJ, et al (2011) HIV-1 restriction factor SAMHD1 is a deoxynucleoside triphosphate triphosphohydrolase. Nature 480:379–382

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nakhjiri M, Nakhjiri M (2006) AAA and Network Security for Mobile Access. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Gen M, Green D, Katai O, et al (2009) Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bittermann D, Fischer M (2011) Development and Design of the EPR^TM Core Catcher. In: Saito T, Yamashita J, Oka Y, Ishiwatari Y (eds) Advances in Light Water Reactor Technologies. Springer, New York, NY, pp 119–142

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) Bowhead Whales Recorded Singing Unique New Songs. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/12-new-unique-bowhead-whale-songs-recorded-scientists/. 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 (2015) Air Travel and Communicable Diseases: Comprehensive Federal Plan Needed for U.S. Aviation System’s Preparedness. 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

Warren KL (2014) Agents of change: A new role for learners in online workplace training. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

(nyt) SK (2004) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Union Says A Million Strike. New York Times A10

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

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