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]

Silver LM. What are clones? Nature 2001;412:21.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Stevenson IR, Bryant DM. Climate change and constraints on breeding. Nature 2000;406:366–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Machens CK, Romo R, Brody CD. Flexible control of mutual inhibition: a neural model of two-interval discrimination. Science 2005;307:1121–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mangalassery S, Sjögersten S, Sparkes DL, Sturrock CJ, Craigon J, Mooney SJ. To what extent can zero tillage lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from temperate soils? Sci Rep 2014;4:4586.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Shahidi A. Balanced Asset Allocation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Boulabiar K, Buskes G, Triki A, editors. Positivity. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tack D, Appiah V. Acquisition Protocols for Thoracic CT. In: Schoepf UJ, Meinel FG, editors. Multidetector-Row CT of the Thorax, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 59–68.

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]

Carpineti A. Exoplanet Infographics Highlights The Lack Of Twin Earths. IFLScience 2016.

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. Federal Library Support Programs: Progress and Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Yasa SR. Visual Basic Simulation of H2S Removal from Natural Gas at Downhole in an Extraction Well. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

Vecsey G. For Mets, Sky Was Falling, But Now It’s the Limit. New York Times 2010:B9.

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