How to format your references using the International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology citation style

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

Garwin, L., 2005. Schrödinger’s mousetrap. Part 4. Nature 433, 579.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barnes, W., Sambles, R., 2004. Physics. Only skin deep. Science 305, 785–786.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tahir, M., MacKinnon, A., Schwingenschlögl, U., 2014. Novel spectral features of nanoelectromechanical systems. Sci. Rep. 4, 4035.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hou, C., Huang, T., Wang, H., Yu, H., Zhang, Q., Li, Y., 2013. A strong and stretchable self-healing film with self-activated pressure sensitivity for potential artificial skin applications. Sci. Rep. 3, 3138.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glisic, S., 2016. Advanced Wireless Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Prabhu, V., Taisch, M., Kiritsis, D. (Eds.), 2013. Advances in Production Management Systems. Sustainable Production and Service Supply Chains: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2013, State College, PA, USA, September 9-12, 2013, Proceedings, Part II, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Petzoldt, A., Bulygin, S., Buchmann, J., 2010. CyclicRainbow – A Multivariate Signature Scheme with a Partially Cyclic Public Key, in: Gong, G., Gupta, K.C. (Eds.), Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2010: 11th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Hyderabad, India, December 12-15, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–48.

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 Transportation Science and Technology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. Great Barrier Reef Under Threat Of Being Listed A “World Heritage Site In Danger” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2012. Commuter Rail: Potential Impacts and Cost Estimates for the Cancelled Hudson River Tunnel Project (No. GAO-12-344). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Loretz, N., 2009. Human trafficking: Identification, education, and awareness: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Adkins, M., 2014. The Race to Beat ‘Best Before.’ New York Times MB3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Garwin, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Barnes and Sambles, 2004; Garwin, 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Barnes and Sambles, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Hou et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology
ISSN (print)	2046-0430
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