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

Pollard TD (2011) Cell biology. Formin tip tracking. Science 331:39–41

A journal article with 2 authors

Maniatis T, Reed R (2002) An extensive network of coupling among gene expression machines. Nature 416:499–506

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayden EJ, Ferrada E, Wagner A (2011) Cryptic genetic variation promotes rapid evolutionary adaptation in an RNA enzyme. Nature 474:92–95

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Petiteau D, Guenneau S, Bellieud M, et al (2014) Spectral effectiveness of engineered thermal cloaks in the frequency regime. Sci Rep 4:7386

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz RA, Carew MG, Maksimenko T (2010) Micro Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Devetak I, Glažar SA (eds) (2014) Learning with Understanding in the Chemistry Classroom. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Das ML (2013) Strong Security and Privacy of RFID System for Internet of Things Infrastructure. In: Gierlichs B, Guilley S, Mukhopadhyay D (eds) Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering: Third International Conference, SPACE 2013, Kharagpur, India, October 19-23, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 56–69

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

Fang J (2014) Sloth Evolution Not So Slothful After All. 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 (1997) Head Start: Research Provides Little Information on Impact of Current Program. 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

Ji JH (2010) Near-field characteristics of wall jets with tabs. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Park LS (2011) No Safe Place. New York Times BR16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pollard 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Maniatis and Reed 2002; Pollard 2011).

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

Two authors: (Maniatis and Reed 2002)
Three or more authors: (Petiteau et al. 2014)

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