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

Allen RM (2012) Geophysics. Transforming earthquake detection? Science 335:297–298

A journal article with 2 authors

Seder RA, Hill AV (2000) Vaccines against intracellular infections requiring cellular immunity. Nature 406:793–798

A journal article with 3 authors

Stebe KJ, Lewandowski E, Ghosh M (2009) Materials science. Oriented assembly of metamaterials. Science 325:159–160

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hustoft HK, Brandtzaeg OK, Rogeberg M, et al (2013) Integrated enzyme reactor and high resolving chromatography in “sub-chip” dimensions for sensitive protein mass spectrometry. Sci Rep 3:3511

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Happer W, Jau Y-Y, Walker T (2010) Optically Pumped Atoms. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Schnee E, Better A, Clark Cummings M (2016) Civic Engagement Pedagogy in the Community College: Theory and Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Eglash R, Garvey C (2014) Basins of Attraction for Generative Justice. In: Banerjee S, Erçetin ŞŞ, Tekin A (eds) Chaos Theory in Politics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 75–88

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 (2015) Has Meat Met Its Match? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/has-meat-met-its-match/. 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 (1999) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Light Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard, Model Year 2001. 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

Cardillo-Geller L (2010) Renegotiating relationships, patterns of grief and experiences of support: An examination of mothers’ relationships with their daughters following daughters’ loss of a husband in the September 11 th, 2001 World Trade Center attacks. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Kelly M (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats -- Clinton and Bush Compete to Be Champion of Change; Democrat Fights Perceptions of Bush Gain. New York Times 11

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