How to format your references using the IATSS Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IATSS Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

H. Hoag, Transgenic salmon still out in the cold in United States, Nature 421 (2003) 304.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. Appavoo, R.F. Haglund Jr, Polarization selective phase-change nanomodulator, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6771.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B.R. Sharma, A. Manjanath, A.K. Singh, Pentahexoctite: a new two-dimensional allotrope of carbon, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7164.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Englund, A. Faraon, I. Fushman, N. Stoltz, P. Petroff, J. Vucković, Controlling cavity reflectivity with a single quantum dot, Nature 450 (2007) 857–861.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Cotarca, H. Eckert, Phosgenations - A Handbook, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

A. Clark-Wilson, O. Robutti, N. Sinclair, eds., The Mathematics Teacher in the Digital Era: An International Perspective on Technology Focused Professional Development, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Pyka, P.P. Saviotti, Economic Growth Through the Emergence of New Sectors, in: S. Mann (Ed.), Sectors Matter!: Exploring Mesoeconomics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 55–101.

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 IATSS Research.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, NASA Paid This Guy $18,000 To Lie In A Bed For 70 Days, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nasa-paid-guy-18000-lie-bed-70-days/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, The Federal Wind Energy Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.R. Ochse, Targeted Killing, Drones and International Law: How U.S. Practice is Shaping International Law, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2013.

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

[1]

R. Nordland, J. Kanter, Turkey and E.U. Near Breaking Point in Talks on Membership, New York Times (2016) A4.

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	IATSS Research
ISSN (print)	0386-1112
Scope	General Engineering Safety Research Transportation Urban Studies