How to format your references using the Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development. 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

Wells, T. N. C. 2010. “Microbiology. Is the tide turning for new malaria medicines?” Science, 329 (5996): 1153–1154.

A journal article with 2 authors

Livneh, U., and A. Zador. 2014. “Sensory systems: Sound processing takes motor control.” Nature, 513 (7517): 180–181.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlesworth, J. D., T. L. Warren, and M. S. Brainard. 2012. “Covert skill learning in a cortical-basal ganglia circuit.” Nature, 486 (7402): 251–255.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, Z., S. Yu, H. Fan, and C. H. Oh. 2014. “Quantum error correction assisted by two-way noisy communication.” Sci. Rep., 4: 7203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonneau, D., A. Fatu, and D. Souchet. 2014. Thermo-Hydrodynamic Lubrication in Hydrodynamic Bearings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Abbas, S. 2015. Advanced Functional Evolution Equations and Inclusions. Developments in Mathematics, (M. Benchohra, ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Borowitzka, M. A. 2013. “Species and Strain Selection.” Algae for Biofuels and Energy, M. A. Borowitzka and N. R. Moheimani, eds., 77–89. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Highway and Transportation Research and Development.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2016. “Starbucks To Trial Recyclable Coffee Cups In The UK.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/starbucks-to-trial-recyclable-coffee-cups-in-the-uk/.

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. 2005. Information Technology Management: Census Bureau Has Implemented Many Key Practices, but Additional Actions Are Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

E, C.-C. 2014. “The syntax of comparative correlatives in Mandarin Chinese.” Doctoral dissertation. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Crow, K. 2001. “Pool or Gym? A Task Force Chooses Both.” New York Times, June 3, 2001.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wells 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Livneh and Zador 2014; Wells 2010).

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

Two authors: (Livneh and Zador 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development
ISSN (online)	2095-6215
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