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]

Breaker RR. Complex riboswitches. Science. 2008;319(5871):1795–1797.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lin JY, Fisher DE. Melanocyte biology and skin pigmentation. Nature. 2007;445(7130):843–850.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhang G, Jiang X, Wang E. Tubular graphite cones. Science. 2003;300(5618):472–474.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Kleine T, Palme H, Mezger K, et al. Hf-W chronometry of lunar metals and the age and early differentiation of the Moon. Science. 2005;310(5754):1671–1674.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Illian J, Penttinen A, Stoyan H, et al. Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Point Patterns. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Heiberger RM. R Through Excel: A Spreadsheet Interface for Statistics, Data Analysis, and Graphics. Neuwirth E, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ferrari A. Perceptive Defects. In: Cioni G, editor. The Spastic Forms of Cerebral Palsy: A Guide to the Assessment of Adaptive Functions. Milano: Springer; 2010. p. 73–98.

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]

Luntz S. Plankton That Turns Water Into Jelly Pollutes Canadian Lakes [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/canadian-lakes-need-harden/.

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. Federal Transit Administration: Progress Made in Implementing Changes to the Job Access Program, but Evaluation and Oversight Processes Need Improvement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006. Report No.: GAO-07-43. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Chapman TW. Evaluating the δ13C Value of n-Alkanes as a Recorder of Atmospheric Chemistry [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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]

Rothenberg B. Nadal Seeks to Recapture Wimbledon Success. New York Times. 2017 Jun 29;B13.

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