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

Kurita, N.: Climate change. Dancing to the tune of the glacial cycles. Science. 336, 1242–1243 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Chklovskii, D.B., Bargmann, C.I.: Neuroscience. The mind of a male? Science. 337, 416–417 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Gustafson, J.L., Lim, D., Miller, S.J.: Dynamic kinetic resolution of biaryl atropisomers via peptide-catalyzed asymmetric bromination. Science. 328, 1251–1255 (2010)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stelling, J., Klamt, S., Bettenbrock, K., Schuster, S., Gilles, E.D.: Metabolic network structure determines key aspects of functionality and regulation. Nature. 420, 190–193 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deroussi, L.: Metaheuristics for Logistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Lucanu, D. ed: Rewriting Logic and Its Applications: 11th International Workshop, WRLA 2016, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2-3, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

D’Abbondanza, J.A., Lass, E., Ai, J., Macdonald, R.L.: Mouse Genetic Background Is Associated with Variation in Secondary Complications After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. In: Fandino, J., Marbacher, S., Fathi, A.-R., Muroi, C., and Keller, E. (eds.) Neurovascular Events After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Towards Experimental and Clinical Standardisation. pp. 29–33. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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.: Here Are 10 Questions Google Asked A Computer Engineer In A Job Interview, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/here-are-10-questions-google-asked-a-computer-engineer-in-a-job-interview/

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: Higher Education: Multiple Higher Education Tax Incentives Create Opportunities for Taxpayers to Make Costly Mistakes. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2008)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clovis, D.J.: The thayer valve and its effect on a generation and beyond, (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

Kwai, I.: Australia Has Collected 12,500 Guns in Amnesty, (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