How to format your references using the The Journal of Transport History citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Transport History (JTH). 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

Meredith Wadman, “Moment of reckoning”, Nature 446:7138 (2007), 844–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lucy A. Godley and Alfonso Mondragón, “Molecular biology. Preference by exclusion”, Science (New York, N.Y.) 331:6020 (2011), 1017–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tatsuya Togashi, Hironobu Sasaki and Jin Yoshimura, “A geometrical approach explains Lake Ball (Marimo) formations in the green alga, Aegagropila linnaei”, Scientific reports 4 (2014), 3761.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Angelika Kunze, Marta Bally, Fredrik Höök and Göran Larson, “Equilibrium-fluctuation-analysis of single liposome binding events reveals how cholesterol and Ca2+ modulate glycosphingolipid trans-interactions”, Scientific reports 3 (2013), 1452.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eduardo Souza de Cursi, Variational Methods for Engineers with Matlab®, (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015).

An edited book

Götz E. Pfander (ed.), Sampling Theory, a Renaissance: Compressive Sensing and Other Developments, 1st ed. 2015 (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl, “On Naturalizing Free”, in Luciano Boi, Pierre Kerszberg and Frédéric Patras (ed.), Rediscovering Phenomenology: Phenomenological Essays on Mathematical Beings, Physical Reality, Perception and Consciousness (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007), 125–64.

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 The Journal of Transport History.

Blog post

Tom Hale, “Can You Spot What’s Hiding In This Photograph?”, IFLScience (IFLScience, 2016) <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/can-you-spot-whats-hiding-in-this-photograph/> [accessed 30 October 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, Overhead Costs: Costs Charged by McDonnell Douglas Aerospace’s Space Station Division, (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 23 June 1994).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Linda C. Hilton, “Case study on organic farming as a sustainable solution for African-American farmers”, (unpublished Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix, 2015).

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

Jonathan Soble and Michael J. de la MERCED, “Takata, Preparing for a Sale, Is Said to Near Bankruptcy”, New York Times, 16 June 2017, B2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Transport History
ISSN (print)	0022-5266
ISSN (online)	1759-3999
Scope