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]

J. Haldeman, Brochure. The apocalypse: a great day out for the whole family, Nature 405 (2000) 401.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.A.N. Patrinos, R.A. Bradley, Environment. Energy and technology policies for managing carbon risk, Science 325 (2009) 949–950.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.J. Wood, G. Storz, N. Tjandra, Structural basis for redox regulation of Yap1 transcription factor localization, Nature 430 (2004) 917–921.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Song, P.B. Wignall, D. Chu, J. Tong, Y. Sun, H. Song, W. He, L. Tian, Anoxia/high temperature double whammy during the Permian-Triassic marine crisis and its aftermath, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4132.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.A. Alberty, Biochemical Thermodynamics: Applications of Mathmatica, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

S. Kumar, E.R. Cohn, eds., Telerehabilitation, Springer, London, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Abdessameud, A. Tayebi, Rigid-Body Attitude Synchronization with Communication Delays, in: A. Tayebi (Ed.), Motion Coordination for VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Attitude Synchronisation and Formation Control, Springer, London, 2013: pp. 63–84.

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]

T. Hale, Ridiculously Cute New Species Of Lemur Discovered In Madagascar, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ridiculously-cute-new-species-lemur-discovered-madagascar/ (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, Review of the Office of Education’s Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N.Y. Miller, Nutrition education series for female club soccer players 14 to 18 years of age, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

K. Crow, Meters Are Running, And Hawking, Too, New York Times (2002) 146.

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