How to format your references using the Traffic Injury Prevention citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Traffic Injury Prevention. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Lipton P. Testing hypotheses: prediction and prejudice. Science. 2005;307(5707):219–221.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang X, Ha T. Defining single molecular forces required to activate integrin and notch signaling. Science. 2013;340(6135):991–994.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berkley KJ, Rapkin AJ, Papka RE. The pains of endometriosis. Science. 2005;308(5728):1587–1589.

A journal article with 19 or more authors

Krattinger SG, Lagudah ES, Spielmeyer W, Singh RP, Huerta-Espino J, McFadden H, Bossolini E, Selter LL, Keller B. A putative ABC transporter confers durable resistance to multiple fungal pathogens in wheat. Science. 2009;323(5919):1360–1363.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Chartered Institute of Building. Code of Practice for Project Management for Construction and Development. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing; 2008.

An edited book

Mackinnon AC Jr ed. Pediatric Neoplasia: Advances in Molecular Pathology and Translational Medicine. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

da Silva PSL, Neto HM, de Carvalho WB. Neuromuscular Blockade. In: Wheeler DS, Wong HR, Shanley TP, eds. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Volume 4: Peri-operative Care of the Critically Ill or Injured Child. London: Springer; 2014:77–90.

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 Injury Prevention.

Blog post

Fang J. Monster Galaxies Gobble Smaller Neighbors to Bulk Up. IFLScience. 2014. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/monster-galaxies-gobble-smaller-neighbors-bulk/. Accessed October 30, 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. Observations on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Fiscal Year 1999 Performance Report and Fiscal Year 2001 Performance Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wickramage AS. Analysis of Magnaporthe oryzae homologs of Histoplasma capsulatum RYP genes. 2013.

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

Kelly M. Underneath the Tire Treads. New York Times. November 5, 1972:GREATER NEW YORK AUTOMOBILE SHOWA15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lipton 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lipton 2005; Wang and Ha 2013).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Ha 2013)
Three or more authors: (Krattinger et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Traffic Injury Prevention
Abbreviation	Traffic Inj. Prev.
ISSN (print)	1538-9588
ISSN (online)	1538-957X
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety Research