How to format your references using the Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Parak, W.J., 2011. Materials science. Complex colloidal assembly. Science 334, 1359–1360.
A journal article with 2 authors
Shinnar, R., Citro, F., 2006. Energy. A road map to U.S. decarbonization. Science 313, 1243–1244.
A journal article with 3 authors
Jordan, S.P., Lee, K.S.M., Preskill, J., 2012. Quantum algorithms for quantum field theories. Science 336, 1130–1133.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Milliron, D.J., Hughes, S.M., Cui, Y., Manna, L., Li, J., Wang, L.-W., Alivisatos, A.P., 2004. Colloidal nanocrystal heterostructures with linear and branched topology. Nature 430, 190–195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Raynaud, H., Arrow, K.J., 2011. Managerial Logic. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Gilbert, J.K., Reiner, M., Nakhleh, M. (Eds.), 2008. Visualization: Theory and Practice in Science Education, Models and Modeling in Science Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.
A chapter in an edited book
Pastor, Ó., Ruiz, M., España, S., 2013. From Requirements to Code: A Full Model-Driven Development Perspective, in: Escalona, M.J., Cordeiro, J., Shishkov, B. (Eds.), Software and Data Technologies: 6th International Conference, ICSOFT 2011, Seville, Spain, July 18-21, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 56–70.

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 Traffic and Transportation Engineering.

Blog post
Luntz, S., 2015. Scientists Have “Squeezed” Light [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-achieve-impossible-way-squeeze-light/ (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, 1972. Administrative Operations and Financial Transactions, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (No. 092435). 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
Blumenthal, P.M., 2014. Local Land Use Regulatory Regimes and Residential Development Outcomes: An Analysis of Subdivision Review in Four Counties in the DC Region (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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
Koblin, J., 2017. Stewart And HBO Pull the Plug On a Project. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parak, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Parak, 2011; Shinnar and Citro, 2006).

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

  • Two authors: (Shinnar and Citro, 2006)
  • Three or more authors: (Milliron et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering
ISSN (print)2095-7564
ScopeCivil and Structural Engineering
Transportation

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