How to format your references using the IET Intelligent Transport Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IET Intelligent Transport Systems. 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

Klarreich, E.: ‘Top researchers plan to snub fertility conference’Nature, 2001, 413, (6853), p. 241.

A journal article with 2 authors

Howard, J., Hyman, A.A.: ‘Dynamics and mechanics of the microtubule plus end’Nature, 2003, 422, (6933), pp. 753–758.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, C., Shang, X.-D., Huang, R.X.: ‘Horizontal eddy energy flux in the world oceans diagnosed from altimetry data’Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, p. 5316.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li, G.S., Qu, J.J., Li, X.Z., Wang, W.F.: ‘The sand-deposition impact of artificial gravel beds on the protection of the Mogao Grottoes’Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, p. 4341.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lad, B.K., Shrivastava, D., Kulkarni, M.S.: ‘Machine Tool Reliability’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016)

An edited book

Taylor, L.D.: ‘Consumer Demand in the United States: Prices, Income, and Consumption Behavior’ (Springer, 2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Conklin, M.: ‘Project Entity Matching across FLOSS Repositories’, in Feller, J., Fitzgerald, B., Scacchi, W., Sillitti, A. (Eds.): ‘Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation: IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software, June 11–14, 2007, Limerick, Ireland’ (Springer US, 2007), pp. 45–57

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 IET Intelligent Transport Systems.

Blog post

Hale, T.: ‘The Coolest New Animal Species Discovered In 2016’, accessed October 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: ‘Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service’s Fiscal Year 2008 Expenditure Plan’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Finnegan, R.J.: ‘Information food webs: A quantitative inquiry using a biological food web methodology’. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2010

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

McKINLEY, J.C., Jr: ‘Man Gets Maximum Sentence in Bus Driver’s Death’New York Times, 2017, p. A24.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	IET Intelligent Transport Systems
Abbreviation	IET Intell. Transp. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1751-956X
Scope	Mechanical Engineering General Environmental Science Law Transportation

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