How to format your references using the Transport Policy citation style

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

Vogel, G., 2000. LABORATORY ANIMALS: Congress OKs Plan for Retired Chimps. Science 290, 2233a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scaffidi, P., Misteli, T., 2006. Lamin A-dependent nuclear defects in human aging. Science 312, 1059–1063.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshimura, K., Onda, Y., Fukushima, T., 2014. Sediment particle size and initial radiocesium accumulation in ponds following the Fukushima DNPP accident. Sci. Rep. 4, 4514.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Acremann, Y., Buess, M., Back, C.H., Dumm, M., Bayreuther, G., Pescia, D., 2001. Ultrafast generation of magnetic fields in a Schottky diode. Nature 414, 51–54.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cyr, K.S., 2010. Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Administration. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Mohanty, P., Muneer, T., Kolhe, M. (Eds.), 2016. Solar Photovoltaic System Applications: A Guidebook for Off-Grid Electrification, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Green Energy and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Van Horn, P., Reyes, V., 2014. Child-Parent Psychotherapy with Infants and Very Young Children, in: Timmer, S., Urquiza, A. (Eds.), Evidence-Based Approaches for the Treatment of Maltreated Children: Considering Core Components and Treatment Effectiveness, Child Maltreatment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 61–77.

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 Policy.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. This Sarlacc-Like Creature Existed 520 Million Years Before Star Wars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1995. Terminating Federal Helium Refining (No. RCED-95-252R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Whitehead, C.F., 2010. Teacher perceptions of the effects of parentification on social interactions in the school setting (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Sutherland, J., 2017. You Don’t Know Jane. New York Times BR11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vogel, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Scaffidi and Misteli, 2006; Vogel, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Scaffidi and Misteli, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Acremann et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transport Policy
Abbreviation	Transp. Policy (Oxf.)
ISSN (print)	0967-070X
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Law Transportation