How to format your references using the Journal of Air Transport Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Air Transport Management. 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

Edgerton, D., 2008. The charge of technology. Nature 455, 1030–1031.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, J., Yang, W., 2012. Water management. Water sustainability for China and beyond. Science 337, 649–650.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xin, H., Liu, Q., Li, B., 2014. Non-contact fiber-optical trapping of motile bacteria: dynamics observation and energy estimation. Sci. Rep. 4, 6576.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tadin, D., Lappin, J.S., Gilroy, L.A., Blake, R., 2003. Perceptual consequences of centre-surround antagonism in visual motion processing. Nature 424, 312–315.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rassool, G.H., 2010. Addiction for Nurses. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Vassiliou, E., 2005. Geometry of Principal Sheaves, Mathematics and Its Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Dellacherie, C., Martinez, S., San Martin, J., 2014. Graph of Ultrametric Type Matrices, in: Martinez, S., San Martin, J. (Eds.), Inverse M-Matrices and Ultrametric Matrices, Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 85–117.

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 Journal of Air Transport Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Eight Hours Is Enough – More Sleep Could Lead To An Early Grave [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, 1973. Use of Computers at Naval Laboratories (No. B-115369). 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

Balakrishnan, G., 2017. Cognitive radio cooperative spectrum sensing (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

Hubbard, B., 2017. Rising Saudi Prince, 31, Advances to One Step From the Throne. New York Times A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Edgerton, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Edgerton, 2008; Liu and Yang, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Liu and Yang, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Tadin et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Air Transport Management
Abbreviation	J. Air Transp. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0969-6997
Scope	Strategy and Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Law Transportation