How to format your references using the Journal of Transport Geography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Transport Geography. 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	Download the output style file
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

Schiermeier, Q., 2003. Europe told to unite on spy satellites. Nature 422, 361.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galant, R., Carroll, S.B., 2002. Evolution of a transcriptional repression domain in an insect Hox protein. Nature 415, 910–913.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heimpel, M., Aurnou, J., Wicht, J., 2005. Simulation of equatorial and high-latitude jets on Jupiter in a deep convection model. Nature 438, 193–196.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuiken, T., Rimmelzwaan, G., van Riel, D., van Amerongen, G., Baars, M., Fouchier, R., Osterhaus, A., 2004. Avian H5N1 influenza in cats. Science 306, 241.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Motai Ph.D., Y., 2015. Data-Variant Kernel Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Satapathy, S.C., Bhatt, Y.C., Joshi, A., Mishra, D.K. (Eds.), 2016. Proceedings of the International Congress on Information and Communication Technology: ICICT 2015, Volume 1, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Yampolskiy, R.V., Rebolledo-Mendez, J.D., Hindi, M.M., 2014. Password Protected Visual Cryptography via Cellular Automaton Rule 30, in: Shi, Y.Q., Liu, F., Yan, W. (Eds.), Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security IX: Special Issue on Visual Cryptography, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–67.

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 Transport Geography.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2015. Whale Unexpectedly Slaps Girl Around The Face [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/whale-slaps-girl-around-face/ (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, 1974. Congressional Budget Reform: What Are Its Prospects? (No. 094568). 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

Sitterding, M.C., 2014. Situation awareness and the selection of interruption handling strategies during the medication administration process: A qualitative study (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Kishkovsky, S., 2012. Russia: Prosecutors Investigate After Exhibition Draws Complaints. New York Times A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Galant and Carroll, 2002; Schiermeier, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Galant and Carroll, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kuiken et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Transport Geography
Abbreviation	J. Transp. Geogr.
ISSN (print)	0966-6923
Scope	General Environmental Science Geography, Planning and Development Transportation