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]

A. Abbott, Funding fears spark Italian protests, Nature 414 (2001) 384.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Grosche, A. Reichenbach, Neuroscience. Developmental refining of neuroglial signaling?, Science 339 (2013) 152–153.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E.C. Friedberg, R. Wagner, M. Radman, Specialized DNA polymerases, cellular survival, and the genesis of mutations, Science 296 (2002) 1627–1630.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.G. Ouzounov, F.R. Ahmad, D. Müller, N. Venkataraman, M.T. Gallagher, M.G. Thomas, J. Silcox, K.W. Koch, A.L. Gaeta, Generation of megawatt optical solitons in hollow-core photonic band-gap fibers, Science 301 (2003) 1702–1704.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Khanlari, M.S. Fard, FIDIC Plant and Design-Build Form of Contract Illustrated, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

M. Diederich, K. Noworyta, eds., Natural compounds as inducers of cell death: volume 1, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.R. Berthold, From Patterns to Discoveries, in: M.M. Gaber (Ed.), Journeys to Data Mining: Experiences from 15 Renowned Researchers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 43–49.

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. Fang, Steadfast Seabirds are Fleeing Their Ancestral Homes in Mexico and Heading to California, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/steadfast-seabirds-are-fleeing-their-ancestral-homes-mexico-and-heading/ (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, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Avoiding Major Disruptions Will Require Strong Leadership and Effective Partnerships, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.M. Smith, The Relationship Between Political Affiliation and Student Achievement in the Areas of Reading and Mathematics, with Respect to Black Students, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2017.

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]

J. Gorman, Analyzing Ah-Choos: All Dogs in Favor Of the Motion, Sneeze, New York Times (2017) D2.

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