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

Lang, T.: Ebola: Embed research in outbreak response. Nature. 524, 29–31 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Roth, A., Diederichs, S.: Molecular biology: Rap and chirp about X inactivation. Nature. 521, 170–171 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Oldroyd, G.E.D., Harrison, M.J., Paszkowski, U.: Reprogramming plant cells for endosymbiosis. Science. 324, 753–754 (2009)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Branderhorst, M.P.A., Londero, P., Wasylczyk, P., Brif, C., Kosut, R.L., Rabitz, H., Walmsley, I.A.: Coherent control of decoherence. Science. 320, 638–643 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tagare, D.M.: Electric Power Generation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Ghergu, M.: Nonlinear PDEs: Mathematical Models in Biology, Chemistry and Population Genetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Snik, F., Keller, C.U.: Astronomical Polarimetry: Polarized Views of Stars and Planets. In: Oswalt, T.D. and Bond, H.E. (eds.) Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems: Volume 2: Astronomical Techniques, Software, and Data. pp. 175–221. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2013)

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

Hale, T.: Pigs Can Be Pessimists, But Become More Optimistic In Nicer Surroundings

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: National Aeronautical Facilities Program: Issues Related to Its Cost and Need. 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

Lara, C.: Bullying victimization among adolescent students: A qualitative study, (2015)

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

St. John Kelly, E.: Almost Tudor Interior, but Ignoble Facade, (1998)

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