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

Bennett, R.: Journal club. A microbiologist wonders what turns us on. Nature. 461, 15 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Simons, M., Eichmann, A.: Physiology. Lymphatics are in my veins. Science. 341, 622–624 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Maskus, K.E., Mobarak, A.M., Stuen, E.T.: Economics. Doctoral students and U.S. immigration policy. Science. 342, 562–563 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tsukahara, S., Kobayashi, A., Kawabe, A., Mathieu, O., Miura, A., Kakutani, T.: Bursts of retrotransposition reproduced in Arabidopsis. Nature. 461, 423–426 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barron, R.F., Barron, B.R.: Design for Thermal Stresses. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Witzany, G. ed: Biocommunication of Fungi. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Meninger, S.: Phase Noise and Jitter. In: Xanthopoulos, T. (ed.) Clocking in Modern VLSI Systems. pp. 139–181. Springer US, Boston, MA (2009)

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

Hale, T.: Did Seaweed Help Our Early Ancestors Become Human?

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: Amtrak: Contracting Improprieties by Chief Engineer. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1999)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tuquero, J.M.: A meta-ethnographic synthesis of support services for adult learners in distance learning programs, (2010)

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

Rothenberg, B.: As Players Pull Out, Criticism Floods In, (2017)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bennett 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bennett 2009; Simons and Eichmann 2013).

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

Two authors: (Simons and Eichmann 2013)
Three or more authors: (Tsukahara et al. 2009)

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