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

Petrini JHJ. Cell signaling. A touching response to damage. Science. 2007;316(5828):1138–1139.

A journal article with 2 authors

Müller F-J, Loring JF. Network biology: A compass for stem-cell differentiation. Nature. 2014;513(7519):498–499.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mohanan JL, Arachchige IU, Brock SL. Porous semiconductor chalcogenide aerogels. Science. 2005;307(5708):397–400.

A journal article with 19 or more authors

Angelini A, Barakat E, Munzert P, Boarino L, De Leo N, Enrico E, Giorgis F, Herzig HP, Pirri CF, Descrovi E. Focusing and extraction of light mediated by Bloch surface waves. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:5428.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yu J, Tao D. Modern Machine Learning Techniques and Their Applications in Cartoon Animation Research. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Schuller M, Sloots TP, James GS, Halliday CL, Carter IWJ eds. PCR for Clinical Microbiology: An Australian and International Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Chesko J, Vedvick T, Reed S. Development of Biophysical Assays to Better Understand Adjuvanted Vaccine Formulation Potency and Stability. In: Singh M, ed. Novel Immune Potentiators and Delivery Technologies for Next Generation Vaccines. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2013:107–118.

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

Andrew E. The Milky Way’s Black Hole Could be Surrounded by Ice. IFLScience. 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/milky-ways-black-hole-surrounded-ice/. 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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Status of Emergency and State and Local Law Enforcement Systems Is Still Unknown. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Le D. L.A. Children’s Music Therapy Center, LLC. 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

Wagner J. The Mets Believe Cabrera Could Be a Keeper. New York Times. August 4, 2017:B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petrini 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Müller and Loring 2014; Petrini 2007).

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

Two authors: (Müller and Loring 2014)
Three or more authors: (Angelini et al. 2014)

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