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:

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

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 title	Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering
ISSN (print)	2095-7564
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Transportation