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]

Sreenivasan S. Quantitative analysis of the evolution of novelty in cinema through crowdsourced keywords. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2758.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Engdahl A, Nelander B. The vibrational spectrum of H2O3. Science. 2002;295(5554):482–483.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kryazhimskiy S, Draghi JA, Plotkin JB. Evolution. In evolution, the sum is less than its parts. Science. 2011;332(6034):1160–1161.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Miller MA, Nguyen VQ, Lee MH, et al. A sperm cytoskeletal protein that signals oocyte meiotic maturation and ovulation. Science. 2001;291(5511):2144–2147.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Retherford RD, Choe MK. Statistical Models for Causal Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1993.

An edited book

[1]

Astashev VK. Ultrasonic Processes and Machines: Dynamics, Control and Applications. Babitsky VI, Khusnutdinova K, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yoshimura M. Product Design Optimization. In: Misra KB, editor. Handbook of Performability Engineering. London: Springer; 2008. p. 41–56.

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 E. We Could Find Alien Life, But Politicians Don’t Have The Will. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Missile Development: Development Status of the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987. Report No.: NSIAD-87-168. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hrivnak GA. Extending a model of leader -member exchange development: Individual and dyadic effects of personality, similarity and liking [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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]

Sisario B. Frank Ocean Takes Unusual Journey to No. 1. New York Times. 2016 Aug 30;C3.

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