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

Jayaraman KS (2003) India budgets for boost in research. Nature 422:6

A journal article with 2 authors

Bollyky TJ, Bollyky PL (2012) Science and government. Obama and the promotion of international science. Science 338:610–612

A journal article with 3 authors

Gu C, Jan YN, Jan LY (2003) A conserved domain in axonal targeting of Kv1 (Shaker) voltage-gated potassium channels. Science 301:646–649

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jeong H, Tombor B, Albert R, et al (2000) The large-scale organization of metabolic networks. Nature 407:651–654

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

de Gyurky SM (2006) The Cognitive Dynamics of Computer Science. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Peters JF, Skowron A, Wolski M, et al (eds) (2009) Transactions on Rough Sets X. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Priyadarshini Rai, Madasu Hanmandlu (2016) Gaussian Function-Based Particle Swarm Optimization. In: Pant M, Deep K, Bansal JC, et al. (eds) Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving: SocProS 2015, Volume 1. Springer, Singapore, 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 Transportation Security.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Star Without Iron Inspires Galactic Archaeology. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/star-without-iron-galactic-archaeologists-dream/. 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 (1990) Aircraft Maintenance: Air Force Transferred and Eliminated Tasks to Address Funding Shortfalls. 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

Nellenbach KM (2010) Contributions of oral language, problem-solving, and reading attitudes to young adolescents’ silent reading comprehension. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Pollak M (2017) Glen Campbell Dies; Star Who Bridged Pop And Country Was 81. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jayaraman 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Jayaraman 2003; Bollyky and Bollyky 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bollyky and Bollyky 2012)
Three or more authors: (Jeong et al. 2000)

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