How to format your references using the Transportation citation style

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

Knight, J.: Senators call for biodefence boost. Nature. 413, 441 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Morandi, B., Carreira, E.M.: Iron-catalyzed cyclopropanation in 6 M KOH with in situ generation of diazomethane. Science. 335, 1471–1474 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, C., Zhang, T., Goldman, D.I.: A terradynamics of legged locomotion on granular media. Science. 339, 1408–1412 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rieger, M.A., Lamond, M., Preston, C., Powles, S.B., Roush, R.T.: Pollen-mediated movement of herbicide resistance between commercial canola fields. Science. 296, 2386–2388 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety: Guidelines for Technical Planning for on-site Emergencies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (1995)

An edited book

Clark, J.A., Paige, R.F., Polack, F.A.C., Brooke, P.J. eds: Security in Pervasive Computing: Third International Conference, SPC 2006, York, UK, April 18-21, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Hamper, A.: Tailored Physical Activity Promotion with Context-Based Mobile Applications. In: Wickramasinghe, N., Troshani, I., and Tan, J. (eds.) Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics. pp. 73–89. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Transportation.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Largest Silurian Vertebrate Discovered, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/largest-silurian-vertebrate-discovered/

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: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Progress Has Been Made, but Improvements Are Needed to Effectively Manage Risks. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2007)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Meissner, R.: Analyzing inpatient hospital costs by payer: What do they mean for the future of health care in America?, (2009)

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

Walsh, M.W.: Bill Proposed to Give Regulatory Protection to Puerto Rico Mutual Fund Investors, (2015)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Knight 2001; Morandi and Carreira 2012).

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

Two authors: (Morandi and Carreira 2012)
Three or more authors: (Rieger et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation
Abbreviation	Transportation (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	0049-4488
ISSN (online)	1572-9435
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Development Transportation