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

Schiermeier, Q., 2001. Bid to end EU’s transgenic impasse. Nature 413, 661.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fearon, E.R., Cadigan, K.M., 2005. Cell biology. Wnt signaling glows with RNAi. Science 308, 801–803.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van Hoof, C., Baert, K., Witvrouw, A., 2004. Physics. The best materials for tiny, clever sensors. Science 306, 986–987.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mandal, S.M., Migliolo, L., Silva, O.N., Fensterseifer, I.C.M., Faria-Junior, C., Dias, S.C., Basak, A., Hazra, T.K., Franco, O.L., 2014. Controlling resistant bacteria with a novel class of β-lactamase inhibitor peptides: from rational design to in vivo analyses. Sci. Rep. 4, 6015.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller, R.E., 1999. Optimization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Levitin, G. (Ed.), 2007. Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering: New Metaheuristics, Neural and Fuzzy Techniques in Reliability, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Roth, W.-M., Radford, L., 2011. Developmental Possibilities in/from Activity, in: Roth, W.-M., Radford, L. (Eds.), A Cultural-Historical Perspective on Mathematics Teaching and Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 69–90.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Mountain Biker Crashes Into A Bear While Cycling In California [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, 1992. Tax Systems Modernization: Update on Critical Issues Facing IRS (No. T-IMTEC-92-18). 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

Pearson, R.S., 2008. Relationship Banking in a Competitive Environment With and Without Information Sharing: The Importance of Credit Bureaus in Microfinance (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Rao, T., 2016. Cool Ranch. New York Times MM30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Fearon and Cadigan, 2005; Schiermeier, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Fearon and Cadigan, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Mandal et al., 2014)

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