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

David Cyranoski, “Japan election sparks science pledges”, Nature 460:7258 (2009), 938.

A journal article with 2 authors

John W. Edmunds and Louis C. Mahadevan, “Cell signaling. Protein kinases seek close encounters with active genes”, Science (New York, N.Y.) 313:5786 (2006), 449–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

Anirban Banerjee, Webster L. Santos and Gregory L. Verdine, “Structure of a DNA glycosylase searching for lesions”, Science (New York, N.Y.) 311:5764 (2006), 1153–7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Arthur M. Wolfe, Regina A. Jorgenson, Timothy Robishaw, Carl Heiles and Jason X. Prochaska, “An 84-microG magnetic field in a galaxy at redshift z = 0.692”, Nature 455:7213 (2008), 638–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daniel B. Talbot, Frequency Acquisition Techniques for Phase Locked Loops, (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012).

An edited book

Teresina Torre, Alessio Maria Braccini and Riccardo Spinelli (eds.), Empowering Organizations: Enabling Platforms and Artefacts, 1st ed. 2016 (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016), xi.

A chapter in an edited book

Michiel A. P. Pertijs and Johan H. Huijsing, “SIGMA-DELTA ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION”, in Johan H. Huijsing (ed.), PRECISION TEMPERATURE SENSORS IN CMOS TECHNOLOGY (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006), 107–57.

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

Elise Andrew, “Organic ‘Computers’ Made Of DNA Could Process Data Inside Our Bodies”, IFLScience (IFLScience, 2015) <https://www.iflscience.com/technology/organic-computers-made-dna-could-process-data-inside-our-bodies/> [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, Contracts Under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 5 July 1996).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Amy Christine Oakes, “States in Crisis: How Governments Respond to Domestic Unrest”, (unpublished Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, 2006).

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

James Poniewozik, “When Leer Was King”, New York Times, 7 September 2017, C1.

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