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

Casey WH (2002) Geochemistry. The fate of chlorine in soils. Science 295:985–986

A journal article with 2 authors

Behar SM, Sassetti CM (2014) Immunology: Fixing the odds against tuberculosis. Nature 511:39–40

A journal article with 3 authors

Sang L, Coller HA, Roberts JM (2008) Control of the reversibility of cellular quiescence by the transcriptional repressor HES1. Science 321:1095–1100

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rong H, Jones R, Liu A, et al (2005) A continuous-wave Raman silicon laser. Nature 433:725–728

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moll W, Moll A (2011) Schallschutz im Wohnungsbau. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Aebi M, Gunzburg R, Szpalski M (eds) (2005) The Aging Spine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Sánchez G, Blanco G (2016) Na, K-ATPase α4: An Isoform Dedicated to Sperm Function. In: Chakraborti S, Dhalla NS (eds) Regulation of Membrane Na+-K+ ATPase. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 77–92

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

Andrew E (2015) Icy Plumes Bursting From Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Suggest It Could Harbour Life. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/icy-plumes-bursting-saturn-s-moon-enceladus-suggest-it-could-harbour-life/. 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 (1978) Subcontractor’s Problems With Prime Contractor at Kennedy Space Center. 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

Hao S (2013) An Introduction to Discrete Minimal Surfaces via the Enneper Surface. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Greenhouse L (2007) Justices Support Guidelines for Sentencing. New York Times A18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Casey 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Casey 2002; Behar and Sassetti 2014).

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

Two authors: (Behar and Sassetti 2014)
Three or more authors: (Rong et al. 2005)

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