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

Grayson, M. (2010). Science masterclass. Nature, 467(7317), S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krishnaswamy, V. R., & Korrapati, P. S. (2014). Role of dermatopontin in re-epithelialization: implications on keratinocyte migration and proliferation. Scientific Reports, 4, 7385.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prokopenko, A. A., Karabanov, E. B., & Williams, D. F. (2002). Age of long sediment cores from Lake Baikal. Nature, 415(6875), 976.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yang, C.-F., Chen, K.-C., Cheng, Y.-H., Raja, J. A. J., Huang, Y.-L., Chien, W.-C., & Yeh, S.-D. (2014). Generation of marker-free transgenic plants concurrently resistant to a DNA geminivirus and a RNA tospovirus. Scientific Reports, 4, 5717.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Motai Ph.D., Y. (2015). Data-Variant Kernel Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Trümper, J. E., & Hasinger, G. (Eds.). (2008). The Universe in X-Rays. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schmitt, D., & Gollnick, V. (2016). The Regulatory Framework of the Air Transportation System. In V. Gollnick (Ed.), Air Transport System (pp. 73–106). 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. (2017, January 11). Byzantine Skeleton Contains 800-Year-Old DNA From The Infection That Killed Her. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/byzantine-skeleton-contains-800yearold-dna-from-the-infection-that-killed-her/

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. (1977). Potential for Cost Reduction in Providing Message Refile Services Through DOD Telecommunications Centers (LCD-76-128). 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

Meng, W. (2014). Synthesis and design of microwave wideband filters and components [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Walsh, M. W., & Corkery, M. (2015, September 30). Senate Panel Seeks More Details About Puerto Rico’s Debt and Long-Term Needs. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Grayson, 2010; Krishnaswamy & Korrapati, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Krishnaswamy & Korrapati, 2014)
Three authors: (Prokopenko et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Yang et al., 2014)

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