How to format your references using the Research in Transportation Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Transportation Economics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Mejia, R. (2006). Human rights: from accountability to rebuilding. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5785), 289.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheung, A. Y., & Wu H, M. (2001). Plant biology. Pollen tube guidance--right on target. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5534), 1441–1442.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mellman, I., Coukos, G., & Dranoff, G. (2011). Cancer immunotherapy comes of age. Nature, 480(7378), 480–489.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Venegas, C., Kumar, S., Franklin, B. S., Dierkes, T., Brinkschulte, R., Tejera, D., Vieira-Saecker, A., Schwartz, S., Santarelli, F., Kummer, M. P., Griep, A., Gelpi, E., Beilharz, M., Riedel, D., Golenbock, D. T., Geyer, M., Walter, J., Latz, E., & Heneka, M. T. (2017). Microglia-derived ASC specks cross-seed amyloid-β in Alzheimer’s disease. Nature, 552(7685), 355–361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins, B. R. (2015). The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jiang, T., Navab, N., Pluim, J. P. W., & Viergever, M. A. (Eds.). (2010). Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2010: 13th International Conference, Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2010, Proceedings, Part III (Vol. 6363). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dobrescu, R., & Ichim, L. (2008). Automatic Data Acquisition and Signal Processing in the Field of Virology. In P. Perner & O. Salvetti (Eds.), Advances in Mass Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry: Third International Conference, MDA 2008 Leipzig, Germany, July 14, 2008 Proceedings (pp. 52–61). Springer.

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 Research in Transportation Economics.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, September 22). Study Finds People Can Be Identified By The Bacteria They Breathe Out. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2012). U.S. Merchant Marine Academy: Additional Actions Needed to Establish Effective Internal Control (GAO-12-369). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Schwartz, J. (2009). Essays on unemployment insurance and the business cycle [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Pilon, M. (2014, February 21). Judging Draws Renewed Scrutiny. New York Times, B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mejia, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Cheung & Wu H, 2001; Mejia, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Cheung & Wu H, 2001)
Three authors: (Mellman et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Venegas et al., 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Transportation Economics
Abbreviation	Res. Transp. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0739-8859
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Transportation