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

Sarewitz D (2009) World view: A tale of two sciences. Nature 462:566

A journal article with 2 authors

Kamber BS, Kramers JD (2006) Geochemistry: how well can Pb isotopes date core formation? Nature 444:E1-2; discussion E2-3

A journal article with 3 authors

Fasel R, Parschau M, Ernst K-H (2006) Amplification of chirality in two-dimensional enantiomorphous lattices. Nature 439:449–452

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yoshino T, Matsuzaki T, Yamashita S, Katsura T (2006) Hydrous olivine unable to account for conductivity anomaly at the top of the asthenosphere. Nature 443:973–976

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blumberg LM (2010) Temperature-Programmed Gas Chromatography. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Blum AF (2016) Fire Hazard Assessment of Lithium Ion Battery Energy Storage Systems. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Nieberler M, Kittel RJ, Petrenko AG, et al (2016) Control of Adhesion GPCR Function Through Proteolytic Processing. In: Langenhan T, Schöneberg T (eds) Adhesion G Protein-coupled Receptors: Molecular, Physiological and Pharmacological Principles in Health and Disease. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 83–109

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) How Your Body Knows When To Burn Fat. 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 (1969) Useful Techniques for Examining Automated Data Processing Systems. 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

Coar H (2010) Using mandalas to support grieving female adolescents: A case study. 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

Clarke J (2017) Respites From Solitude of an Ocean Voyage. New York Times B8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarewitz 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kamber and Kramers 2006; Sarewitz 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kamber and Kramers 2006)
Three or more authors: (Yoshino et al. 2006)

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

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