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

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

Zars, T. 2012. “Physiology. She said no, pass me a beer.” Science, 335 (6074): 1309–1310.

A journal article with 2 authors

Derry, L. A., and R. W. Murray. 2004. “Geochemistry. Continental margins and the sulfur cycle.” Science, 303 (5666): 1981–1982.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hautier, Y., P. A. Niklaus, and A. Hector. 2009. “Competition for light causes plant biodiversity loss after eutrophication.” Science, 324 (5927): 636–638.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Timpson, N., J. Heron, G. D. Smith, and W. Enard. 2007. “Comment on papers by Evans et al. and Mekel-Bobrov et al. on Evidence for Positive Selection of MCPH1 and ASPM.” Science, 317 (5841): 1036; author reply 1036.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, Y. 2015. Computer Principles and Design in Verilog HDL. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Furuichi, T., and J. Thompson (Eds.). 2008. The Bonobos: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cvetinovic, M. 2016. “Reading Case Studies.” Learning from the Slums for the Development of Emerging Cities, GeoJournal Library, J.-C. Bolay, J. Chenal, and Y. Pedrazzini, eds., 45–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Transportation Engineering.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2014. “New Evidence Plants Can ‘Think’ And Make Decisions Based On Possible Future Risks.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 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. 1985. Automated Information Systems Security in Federal Civil Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Clark, B. M. 2013. “Faculty Perceptions of the Importance of Internationalizing the General Education Curriculum in the Florida College System.” Doctoral dissertation. Tampa, FL: 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

Somaiya, R. 2015. “Reporters in Las Vegas Try to Crack Case of Who Really Owns Their Newspaper.” New York Times, December 15, 2015.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zars 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Derry and Murray 2004; Zars 2012).

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

Two authors: (Derry and Murray 2004)
Three or more authors: (Timpson et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Transportation Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Transp. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0733-947X
ISSN (online)	1943-5436
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Transportation