How to format your references using the Transport Reviews citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Alley, R. B. (2007). Geochemistry. “C”ing Arctic climate with black ice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5843), 1333–1334.
A journal article with 2 authors
Tulaczyk, S., & Hossainzadeh, S. (2011). Geochemistry. Antarctica’s deep frozen “lakes.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6024), 1524–1525.
A journal article with 3 authors
Huang, L., Treisman, A., & Pashler, H. (2007). Characterizing the limits of human visual awareness. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5839), 823–825.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Lan, F., Collins, R. E., De Cegli, R., Alpatov, R., Horton, J. R., Shi, X., Gozani, O., Cheng, X., & Shi, Y. (2007). Recognition of unmethylated histone H3 lysine 4 links BHC80 to LSD1-mediated gene repression. Nature, 448(7154), 718–722.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
von Eye, A., & Mun, E.-Y. (2012). Log-Linear Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Scarabino, T. (2006). Atlas of Morphology and Functional Anatomy of the Brain (U. Salvolini, Ed.). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Sano, T., Hori, J.-I., Takahashi, Y., Unesaki, H., & Nakajima, K. (2015). Development of Nondestructive Assay of Fuel Debris of Fukushima Daiichi NPP (2): Numerical Validation for the Application of a Self-Indication Method. In K. Nakajima (Ed.), Nuclear Back-end and Transmutation Technology for Waste Disposal: Beyond the Fukushima Accident (pp. 31–37). Springer Japan.

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 Reviews.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2014, December 12). Is Stephen Hawking Right? Could AI Lead To The End Of Humankind? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/stephen-hawking-right-could-ai-lead-end-humankind/

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. (1997). District of Columbia Public Schools: Student Enrollment Count Remains Vulnerable to Errors (HEHS-97-161). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Schneider, S. Z. (2009). Mercury sources and cycling processes in the Cape Fear River estuary, North Carolina [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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
Greenhouse, L. (2008, February 28). Supreme Court Alters Tone In a Discrimination Case. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alley, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Alley, 2007; Tulaczyk & Hossainzadeh, 2011).

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

  • Two authors: (Tulaczyk & Hossainzadeh, 2011)
  • Three authors: (Huang et al., 2007)
  • 6 or more authors: (Lan et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleTransport Reviews
AbbreviationTransp. Rev.
ISSN (print)0144-1647
ISSN (online)1464-5327
ScopeTransportation

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