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

Hoshino, M.: Space physics. Coupling across many scales. Science. 299, 834–835 (2003)

A journal article with 2 authors

Gurnett, D.A., Kurth, W.S.: Electron plasma oscillations upstream of the solar wind termination shock. Science. 309, 2025–2027 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Enquist, B.J., Haskell, J.P., Tiffney, B.H.: General patterns of taxonomic and biomass partitioning in extant and fossil plant communities. Nature. 419, 610–613 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Poffenberger, M.C., Metcalfe-Roach, A., Aguilar, E., Chen, J., Hsu, B.E., Wong, A.H., Johnson, R.M., Flynn, B., Samborska, B., Ma, E.H., Gravel, S.-P., Tonelli, L., Devorkin, L., Kim, P., Hall, A., Izreig, S., Loginicheva, E., Beauchemin, N., Siegel, P.M., Artyomov, M.N., Lum, J.J., Zogopoulos, G., Blagih, J., Jones, R.G.: LKB1 deficiency in T cells promotes the development of gastrointestinal polyposis. Science. 361, 406–411 (2018)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zaragoza Dörwald, F.: Side Reactions in Organic Synthesis. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG (2004)

An edited book

Just, R.E., Alston, J.M., Zilberman, D. eds: Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology: Economics and Policy. Springer US, Boston, MA (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Diamantis, V.I., Vaiopoulou, E., Aivasidis, A.: Fundamentals and Applications of Anaerobic Digestion For Sustainable Treatment of Food Industry Wastewater. In: Oreopoulou, V. and Russ, W. (eds.) Utilization of By-Products and Treatment of Waste in the Food Industry. pp. 73–97. Springer US, Boston, MA (2007)

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.: We Are Lucky To Live In A Universe Made For Us, https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-are-lucky-live-universe-made-us/

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: Computer Technology: Air Attack Warning System Cannot Process All Radar Track Data. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1991)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Witvorapong, N.: The Dynamics of Living Arrangements Among the Elderly, (2011)

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

Crow, K.: Looking for Wiseguys In the Land of Checked Tablecloths, (2002)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoshino 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gurnett and Kurth 2005; Hoshino 2003).

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

Two authors: (Gurnett and Kurth 2005)
Three or more authors: (Poffenberger et al. 2018)

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