How to format your references using the Journal of Modern Transportation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Modern 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	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

Eisenberg R (2009) Chemistry. Rethinking water splitting. Science 324:44–45

A journal article with 2 authors

Primakoff P, Myles DG (2002) Penetration, adhesion, and fusion in mammalian sperm-egg interaction. Science 296:2183–2185

A journal article with 3 authors

Balser DS, Rood RT, Bania TM (2007) Comment on “Deep mixing of 3He: reconciling Big Bang and stellar nucleosynthesis.” Science 317:1170

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cocheo V, Sacco P, Boaretto C, et al (2000) Urban benzene and population exposure. Nature 404:141–142

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bosq D, Blanke D (2007) Inference and Prediction in Large Dimensions: Bosq/Inference and Prediction in Large Dimensions. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Wijesundara MBJ (2011) Silicon Carbide Microsystems for Harsh Environments. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Zheng R, Hua C (2016) Spectrum Sensing and Access in Cognitive Radio Networks. In: Hua C (ed) Sequential Learning and Decision-Making in Wireless Resource Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 61–69

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 Modern Transportation.

Blog post

Andrew E (2016) Genetic Detectives: How Scientists Use DNA To Track Disease Outbreaks. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/genetic-detectives-how-scientists-use-dna-track-disease-outbreaks/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1996) Scientific Research: Continued Vigilance Critical to Protecting Human Subjects. 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

Rice HJ (2010) Before the Storm: Evacuation Intention and Audience Segmentation. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Hartocollis A (2013) Two Wills, One Private Heiress. New York Times MB1

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	Journal of Modern Transportation
Abbreviation	J. Mod. Transp.
ISSN (print)	2095-087X
ISSN (online)	2196-0577
Scope	Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering Transportation