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, “Curiosity makes way for capitalism”, Nature 429:6988 (2004), 216–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nira Liberman and Yaacov Trope, “The psychology of transcending the here and now”, Science (New York, N.Y.) 322:5905 (2008), 1201–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cecile F. E. Bacles, Andrew J. Lowe and Richard A. Ennos, “Effective seed dispersal across a fragmented landscape”, Science (New York, N.Y.) 311:5761 (2006), 628.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jernej Ule, Giovanni Stefani, Aldo Mele, Matteo Ruggiu, Xuning Wang, Bahar Taneri, Terry Gaasterland, Benjamin J. Blencowe and Robert B. Darnell, “An RNA map predicting Nova-dependent splicing regulation”, Nature 444:7119 (2006), 580–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Amol B. Bakshi and Viktor K. Prasanna, Architecture-Independent Programming for Wireless Sensor Networks, (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007).

An edited book

Liang-Yin Chu, Smart Hydrogel Functional Materials, in Rui Xie, Xiao-Jie Ju and Wei Wang (ed.), (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013).

A chapter in an edited book

Ryhor Nizhnikau and Niko Alvari, “Ice Hockey World Championship in Belarus: Political Context”, in Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk (ed.), Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016), 79–97.

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, “This Real-Life Loch Monster Lived In Jurassic Scotland”, IFLScience (IFLScience, 2016) <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-reallife-loch-monster-lived-in-jurassic-scotland/> [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, Highway Contracting: Assessing Fraud and Abuse in FHwA’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program, (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 30 November 1988).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jayna G. Seidel, “Adolescent female stress management curriculum”, (unpublished Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach, 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

Sophia Kishkovsky, “In Siberia, the World Moves In With Lenin’s Legacy”, New York Times, 4 January 2000, E2.

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