How to format your references using the Traffic citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Traffic. 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

Parthasarathy H. From scepticism to acceptance. Nature 2002;419:4–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moine H, Mandel JL. Biomedicine. Do G quartets orchestrate fragile X pathology? Science 2001;294:2487–2488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hafed ZM, Goffart L, Krauzlis RJ. A neural mechanism for microsaccade generation in the primate superior colliculus. Science 2009;323:940–943.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Piot P, Bartos M, Ghys PD, Walker N, Schwartländer B. The global impact of HIV/AIDS. Nature 2001;410:968–973.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Unmehopa M, Vemuri K, Bennett A. Parlay/OSA. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Dhalla NS, Nagano M, Ostadal B, editors. Molecular Defects in Cardiovascular Disease. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

De Paoli F, Maurino A, Toma I, O’Sullivan J, Tilly M, Dobson G. Non-Functional Properties and Service Level Agreements in Service-Oriented Computing (NFPSLA-SOC ’07) – Organizers’ Workshop Summary. In: Nitto ED, Ripeanu M, editors. Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2007 Workshops: ICSOC 2007, International Workshops, Vienna, Austria, September 17, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 43–44.

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 Traffic.

Blog post

Fang J. First Ever Archaic Human Jawbone Discovered in Taiwan [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-ever-archaic-human-jawbone-discovered-taiwan/

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. Costs and Benefits of a Common Strategic Rotary Launcher Should Be Reassessed Before Further Funds Are Available. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Newfang DA. A Historical Assessment of Asbestos Exposure, Abatement Methods and Containment Efficacy During Asbestos Containing Material Removal Activities at a Large Federal Facility. 2017;

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

Hubbard B. With Harleys and Hamburgers, Saudis Salute U.S. on Trump’s Visit. New York Times. 2017;A12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Traffic
Abbreviation	Traffic
ISSN (print)	1398-9219
ISSN (online)	1600-0854
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Genetics Molecular Biology Structural Biology