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

Petroff, Y. 2004. “Physics. The electronic structure of liquid lead.” Science, 306 (5705): 2200–2201.

A journal article with 2 authors

le Noble, F., and J. le Noble. 2014. “Bone biology: Vessels of rejuvenation.” Nature, 507 (7492): 313–314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chuang, J. S., O. Rivoire, and S. Leibler. 2009. “Simpson’s paradox in a synthetic microbial system.” Science, 323 (5911): 272–275.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jarosz, E., D. A. Mitchell, D. W. Wang, and W. J. Teague. 2007. “Bottom-up determination of air-sea momentum exchange under a major tropical cyclone.” Science, 315 (5819): 1707–1709.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Connor, D. 2009. God, Evil, and Design. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Minker, W. 2009. Incorporating Knowledge Sources into Statistical Speech Recognition. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, (S. Nakamura, K. Markov, and S. Sakti, eds.). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Jordan, P. 2013. “Analysis techniques for aeroacoustics: noise source identification.” Noise Sources in Turbulent Shear Flows: Fundamentals and Applications, CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, R. Camussi, ed., 197–287. Vienna: 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

O`Callaghan, J. 2015. “These Four Astronauts Will Fly New Private Spacecraft For NASA In 2017.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-has-selected-these-four-astronauts-fly-new-private-spacecraft-2017/.

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. 1991. Grant Administration: Implementation of National Endowment for the Arts Reauthorization Act. 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

Ledgister, N. L. 2015. “A study of transformational leadership and job satisfaction among leaders in Jamaica Baptist Union churches.” Doctoral dissertation. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Hollander, S. 2000. “On Way to Rout, Liberty Wins at the Free-Throw Line.” New York Times, June 19, 2000.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petroff 2004).
This sentence cites two references (le Noble and le Noble 2014; Petroff 2004).

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

Two authors: (le Noble and le Noble 2014)
Three or more authors: (Jarosz 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

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