How to format your references using the Transportation Geotechnics citation style

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

[1]

Sapienza C. Molecular biology. Do Watson and Crick motor from X to Z? Science 2007;315:46–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Nuth JA 3rd, Johnson NM. Astronomy. Complex protostellar chemistry. Science 2012;336:424–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Akselrod M, Herzog MH, Öğmen H. Tracing path-guided apparent motion in human primary visual cortex V1. Sci Rep 2014;4:6063.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kvavadze E, Bar-Yosef O, Belfer-Cohen A, Boaretto E, Jakeli N, Matskevich Z, et al. 30,000-year-old wild flax fibers. Science 2009;325:1359.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Prud’homme R. Flows and Chemical Reactions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Naidu GVC, Chen M, Narayanan R, editors. India and China in the Emerging Dynamics of East Asia. New Delhi: Springer India; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Farhood M. A Parameter-Dependent Lyapunov Approach for the Control of Nonstationary LPV Systems. In: Mohammadpour J, Scherer CW, editors. Control of Linear Parameter Varying Systems with Applications, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012, p. 105–26.

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 Geotechnics.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Excitation and Inhibition Co-Exist in Disappointment. IFLScience 2014.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Agriculture ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Peterson GG. Long-Term Effects of Care Management on Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Medicare Costs Among Chronically-Ill Medicare Beneficiaries. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2013.

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

[1]

Oestreich JR. Where Youth Meets Musical Beauty. New York Times 2017:C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Geotechnics
ISSN (print)	2214-3912
Scope	Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Civil and Structural Engineering Transportation