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

Marshall, E., 2000. BIOTECHNOLOGY:Disease Group Invests in Do-It-Yourself Drugs. Science 288, 1715b–7b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoekstra, A.Y., Wiedmann, T.O., 2014. Humanity’s unsustainable environmental footprint. Science 344, 1114–1117.

A journal article with 3 authors

Webster, A.J., Payne, R.J.H., Pagel, M., 2003. Molecular phylogenies link rates of evolution and speciation. Science 301, 478.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chalasani, S.H., Chronis, N., Tsunozaki, M., Gray, J.M., Ramot, D., Goodman, M.B., Bargmann, C.I., 2007. Dissecting a circuit for olfactory behaviour in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 450, 63–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoffmann, W., 2014. The Economic Competitiveness of Renewable Energy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Schulze, B.-W., Wong, M.W. (Eds.), 2010. Pseudo-Differential Operators: Complex Analysis and Partial Differential Equations: International Workshop, York University, Canada, August 4–8, 2008, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Birkhäuser, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, G., Fischer-Hübner, S., 2011. Timing Attacks on PIN Input in VoIP Networks (Short Paper), in: Holz, T., Bos, H. (Eds.), Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment: 8th International Conference; DIMVA 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7-8, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 75–84.

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

Davis, J., 2015. An “Optical Dog’s Nose” Could Help Detect Cancer From Your Breath [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, 2000. Transit Grants: Department of Labor’s Certification Process (No. T-RCED-00-157). 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

Zolfaghari, S.S., 2015. The relationship between folic acid, vitamin B12, and vitamin B6 intakes and depression in women who use hormonal oral contraceptives (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

Billard, M., 2010. Eight Arms To Embrace Your Pair. New York Times E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marshall, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hoekstra and Wiedmann, 2014; Marshall, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Hoekstra and Wiedmann, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Chalasani et al., 2007)

About the journal

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