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

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

Spiegel FW (2012) Evolution. Contemplating the first Plantae. Science 335:809–810

A journal article with 2 authors

Reimann JDR, Jackson PK (2002) Emi1 is required for cytostatic factor arrest in vertebrate eggs. Nature 416:850–854

A journal article with 3 authors

Burns PC, Ewing RC, Navrotsky A (2012) Nuclear fuel in a reactor accident. Science 335:1184–1188

A journal article with 5 or more authors

She J, Han Z, Kim T-W, et al (2011) Structural insight into brassinosteroid perception by BRI1. Nature 474:472–476

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon J (2009) Training Camp. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hogeling M (ed) (2016) Case-Based Inpatient Pediatric Dermatology. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Quarteroni A, Saleri F, Gervasio P (2014) Numerical differentiation and integration. In: Saleri F, Gervasio P (eds) Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 113–136

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 Security.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Scientists Find World’s Oldest Fossilized Sperm In Antarctica. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1999) Federal Highway Administration: Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operations, Lighting Devices, Reflectors, and Electrical Equipment. 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

Murdock JM (2017) Lethe and the Twin Bodhisattvas of Forgiveness and Forgetfulness. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

BRUCE LAMBERT; Linda Saslow contributed reporting for this article (2005) County Chief Sets Sights on School Tax. New York Times B11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spiegel 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Reimann and Jackson 2002; Spiegel 2012).

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

Two authors: (Reimann and Jackson 2002)
Three or more authors: (She et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Transportation Security
Abbreviation	J. Transp. Secur.
ISSN (print)	1938-7741
ISSN (online)	1938-775X
Scope	Management Science and Operations Research Law Safety Research Sociology and Political Science Transportation Political Science and International Relations