How to format your references using the Transport citation style

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

Fratzl, P. 2012. Materials science. A composite matter of alignment, Science (New York, N.Y.) 335(6065): 177–178.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, Y.; Dohlman, H.G. 2004. Pheromone signaling mechanisms in yeast: a prototypical sex machine, Science (New York, N.Y.) 306(5701): 1508–1509.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baldini, G.; Cannone, F.; Chirico, G. 2005. Pre-unfolding resonant oscillations of single green fluorescent protein molecules, Science (New York, N.Y.) 309(5737): 1096–1100.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, Y.-M.; Brinkmann, M.M.; Paquet, M.-E.; Ploegh, H.L. 2008. UNC93B1 delivers nucleotide-sensing toll-like receptors to endolysosomes, Nature 452(7184): 234–238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Putt, A. 2006. Putt’s Law & the Successful Technocrat. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

B. Mackness, M. Mackness, M. Aviram, G. Paragh (Eds.) 2008. The Paraoxonases: Their Role in Disease Development and Xenobiotic Metabolism. Proteins And Cell Regulation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Gentile, C.; Alsindi, N.; Raulefs, R.; Teolis, C. 2013. Survey-Based Location Systems. In N. Alsindi, R. Raulefs, C. Teolis (Eds.), Geolocation Techniques: Principles and Applications (pp. 99–136). New York, NY: Springer.

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 Transport.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. 2017. 4 Behaviors Are The Most Reliable Predictors Of Divorce IFLScience, 15 February 2017. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/4-behaviors-are-the-most-reliable-predictors-of-divorce/ [Last 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 1988. Educating People at Risk for AIDS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tabone, B. 2013. Knowledge and awareness of the Female Athlete Triad among female collegiate athletes at California State University, Long Beach. Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Vecsey, G. 2010. Bond Between Generations, With Football On the Side. New York Times SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fratzl 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Fratzl 2012; Wang, Dohlman 2004).

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

Two authors: (Wang, Dohlman 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transport
ISSN (print)	1648-4142
ISSN (online)	1648-3480
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