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

Halliday, A. N. 2004. “Mixing, volatile loss and compositional change during impact-driven accretion of the Earth.” Nature, 427 (6974): 505–509.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saltiel, A. R., and C. R. Kahn. 2001. “Insulin signalling and the regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism.” Nature, 414 (6865): 799–806.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aboelella, N. W., A. M. Reynolds, and W. B. Tolman. 2004. “Biophysics. Catching copper in the act.” Science, 304 (5672): 836–837.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Benvenuti, F., S. Hugues, M. Walmsley, S. Ruf, L. Fetler, M. Popoff, V. L. J. Tybulewicz, and S. Amigorena. 2004. “Requirement of Rac1 and Rac2 expression by mature dendritic cells for T cell priming.” Science, 305 (5687): 1150–1153.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alacoque, J. C. 2012. Direct Eigen Control for Induction Machines and Synchronous Motors. Chichester, UK: A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Babin, L., N. A. Good, F. M. Kromann, and J. Stephens (Eds.). 2005. PHP 5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach. Berkeley, CA: A-Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Bivand, R. S., E. Pebesma, and V. Gómez-Rubio. 2013. “Spatial Data Import and Export.” Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, E. Pebesma and V. Gómez-Rubio, eds., 83–125. New York, NY: Springer.

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

Felton, J. 2017. “Flat-Earther’s ‘Experiment’ Goes Viral, Just Not In The Way He’d Hoped.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/flatearthers-experiment-goes-viral-just-not-in-the-way-hed-hoped/.

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. 2003. Freight Transportation: Strategies Needed to Address Planning and Financing Limitations. 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

Al-Qazzaz, A. L. 2013. “A kinetic study of the radiolytic degradation of phthalates in aqueous solutions.” Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Sorkin, A. R., M. J. de la MERCED, and K. Thomas. 2017. “As Amazon Looms, CVS Eyes Aetna For Big Buy.” New York Times, October 27, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Halliday 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Halliday 2004; Saltiel and Kahn 2001).

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

Two authors: (Saltiel and Kahn 2001)
Three or more authors: (Benvenuti et al. 2004)

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