How to format your references using the International Journal of Rail Transportation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Rail Transportation. 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]

Sassone-Corsi P. Unique chromatin remodeling and transcriptional regulation in spermatogenesis. Science. 2002;296:2176–2178.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ikegami T, Ganesh G. Watching novice action degrades expert motor performance: causation between action production and outcome prediction of observed actions by humans. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6989.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Vidale JE, Dodge DA, Earle PS. Slow differential rotation of the Earth’s inner core indicated by temporal changes in scattering. Nature. 2000;405:445–448.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Angotzi GN, Boi F, Zordan S, et al. A programmable closed-loop recording and stimulating wireless system for behaving small laboratory animals. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5963.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Anderson JB. Bandwidth Efficient Coding. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Joux A, editor. Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2009: 28th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Cologne, Germany, April 26-30, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sroufe R. Quality Assurance and Consumer Electronics Recycling. In: Nikolaidis Y, editor. Quality Management in Reverse Logistics: A Broad Look on Quality Issues and Their Interaction with Closed-Loop Supply Chains. London: Springer; 2013. p. 73–94.

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 Rail Transportation.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. This Single Image Contains 6 Celestial Phenomena. How Many Can You Name? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/one-image-6-stunning-celestial-phenomena/.

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. Performance and Accountability: Challenges Facing the Department of Transportation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001. Report No.: GAO-01-443T. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Stefania S. From Italian American Icon to Working Class Hero: Perspectives on Pietro di Donato’s “Christ in Concrete” [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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]

Brantley B. They Sing and Dance, but This Isn’t “La La Land’. New York Times. 2017 Feb 16;C5.

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 Rail Transportation
Abbreviation	Int. J. Rail Transp.
ISSN (print)	2324-8378
ISSN (online)	2324-8386
Scope	Automotive Engineering Mechanics of Materials Transportation