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

Johnson TE (2013) Cell biology. Rapid aging rescue? Science 340:1299–1300

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoorn C, Flantua S (2015) Geology. An early start for the Panama land bridge. Science 348:186–187

A journal article with 3 authors

Innocenti P, Morrow EH, Dowling DK (2011) Experimental evidence supports a sex-specific selective sieve in mitochondrial genome evolution. Science 332:845–848

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hu K, Carroll J, Fedorovich S, et al (2002) Vesicular restriction of synaptobrevin suggests a role for calcium in membrane fusion. Nature 415:646–650

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg SM (2011) The Controller’s Function. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hutchison K, McCann T (eds) (2015) Somebody Knows, Somebody Cares: Reengaging Students through Relationship. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Garshol LM (2006) TMRAP – Topic Maps Remote Access Protocol. In: Maicher L, Park J (eds) Charting the Topic Maps Research and Applications Landscape: First International Workshop on Topic Map Research and Applications, TMRA 2005, Leipzig, Germany, October 6-7, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 53–68

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

Hale T (2016) “Biohackers” Show How To Make An EpiPen For $30. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/biohackers-show-how-to-make-an-epipen-for-30/. 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) Issues and Anticipated Results. 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

Alderson M (2017) Procedural Justice and Police Encounters with Homeless Injecting Drug Users. 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

Wagner J (2016) Bumgarner and Big Blast Leave Mets Blanked and Blue. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Johnson 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Johnson 2013; Hoorn and Flantua 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hoorn and Flantua 2015)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al. 2002)

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