How to format your references using the Public Transport citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Public Transport. 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

Gibson G (2005) Evolution. The synthesis and evolution of a supermodel. Science 307:1890–1891

A journal article with 2 authors

Roorda S, Lewis LJ (2012) Comment on “The local structure of amorphous silicon.” Science 338:1539; author reply 1539

A journal article with 3 authors

Farihi J, Gänsicke BT, Koester D (2013) Evidence for water in the rocky debris of a disrupted extrasolar minor planet. Science 342:218–220

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Diaz-Herraiz M, Jurado V, Cuezva S, et al (2014) Deterioration of an Etruscan tomb by bacteria from the order Rhizobiales. Sci Rep 4:3610

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahmad A (2005) Wireless and Mobile Data Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Edenhofer O, Wallacher J, Lotze-Campen H, et al (eds) (2012) Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability: Linking Climate and Development Policy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Zerbe I, Gajovic-Eichelmann N (2010) Lipidic Microbubble Targeting of Surface Proteins Using an in Vitro System. In: Paradossi G, Pellegretti P, Trucco A (eds) Ultrasound Contrast Agents: Targeting and Processing Methods for Theranostics. Springer, Milano, pp 41–52

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 Public Transport.

Blog post

Andrews R (2015) Study Reveals Why We All Love People That Are Bad For Us. 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 (1995) Vocational Education: Changes at High School Level After Amendments to Perkins Act. 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

Morgan AJ (2017) Analyzing Red and Gray Stages of Bark Beetle Attack in the San Bernardino National Forest Using Remote Sensing. 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

Hay G, Currie A (2010) Barclays’ Appetite For a U.S. Bank. New York Times B2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gibson 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gibson 2005; Roorda and Lewis 2012).

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

Two authors: (Roorda and Lewis 2012)
Three or more authors: (Diaz-Herraiz et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Public Transport
ISSN (print)	1866-749X
ISSN (online)	1613-7159
Scope	Information Systems Management Science and Operations Research Mechanical Engineering Transportation