How to format your references using the International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems 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	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

Schlermiler, Q.: German research agency “doesn’t stifle creativity”, say 1,600 scientists. Nature. 404, 915 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Schubert, E.F., Kim, J.K.: Solid-state light sources getting smart. Science. 308, 1274–1278 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Viswanathan, S.R., Daley, G.Q., Gregory, R.I.: Selective blockade of microRNA processing by Lin28. Science. 320, 97–100 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, E., Kyhm, J., Kim, J.H., Lee, G.Y., Ko, D.-H., Han, I.K., Ko, H.: White light emission from polystyrene under pulsed ultra violet laser irradiation. Sci. Rep. 3, 3253 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Elliott, C.H., Smith, L.L.: Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Ślęzak, D., Kim, T.-H., Stoica, A., Kang, B.-H. eds: Control and Automation: International Conference, CA 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, CA 2009, Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009.Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Mariano, P.M.: On the Origin of Balance Equations in Simple and Complex Continua: Unified View. In: Albers, B. and Kuczma, M. (eds.) Continuous Media with Microstructure 2. pp. 53–76. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: You Have A Higher Chance Of Being Bitten By Uruguay’s Luis Suarez Than By A Shark

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: Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Its Ability to Monitor and Determine the Extent of Competition in Dedicated Access Services. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2006)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coles, J.: The Balancing of Parental Support and Pressure in Fostering Collegiate Athletes, (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

La GORCE, T.: For This Couple, It’s Death Till They Part, (2017)

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	International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research
ISSN (print)	1348-8503
ISSN (online)	1868-8659
Scope	General Neuroscience