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

Koen D. Nuts and bolts. Nature. 2003;425(6958):644.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zamore PD, Haley B. Ribo-gnome: the big world of small RNAs. Science. 2005;309(5740):1519–1524.

A journal article with 3 authors

Topper TP, Holmer LE, Caron J-B. Brachiopods hitching a ride: an early case of commensalism in the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:6704.

A journal article with 19 or more authors

Bell RE, Ferraccioli F, Creyts TT, Braaten D, Corr H, Das I, Damaske D, Frearson N, Jordan T, Rose K, Studinger M, Wolovick M. Widespread persistent thickening of the East Antarctic ice sheet by freezing from the base. Science. 2011;331(6024):1592–1595.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marroni L, Perdomo I. Pricing and Hedging Financial Derivatives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Magnani L, Casadio C eds. Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Meier HEM, Höglund A. Studying the Baltic Sea Circulation with Eulerian Tracers. In: Soomere T, Quak E, eds. Preventive Methods for Coastal Protection: Towards the Use of Ocean Dynamics for Pollution Control. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing; 2013:101–129.

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

Andrews R. Possible Burial Bed Of Jesus Christ Excavated In Jerusalem. IFLScience. 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/possible-burial-bed-of-jesus-christ-excavated-in-jerusalem/. 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. Highway Infrastructure: Interstate Physical Conditions Have Improved, but Congestion and Other Pressures Continue. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhao X. Exfoliation Corrosion Kinetics of High Strength Aluminum Alloys. 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

Grynbaum MM. Fox News May Add Ingraham and Move Up Hannity. New York Times. September 12, 2017:B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koen 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Koen 2003; Zamore and Haley 2005).

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

Two authors: (Zamore and Haley 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bell et al. 2011)

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