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]

Sarnthein M. Paleoclimate. Northern meltwater pulses, CO2, and changes in Atlantic convection. Science 2011;331:156–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tao FF, Salmeron M. In situ studies of chemistry and structure of materials in reactive environments. Science 2011;331:171–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gershenfeld N, Samouhos S, Nordman B. Engineering. Intelligent infrastructure for energy efficiency. Science 2010;327:1086–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhou Q, Renard J-P, Le Friec G, Brochard V, Beaujean N, Cherifi Y, et al. Generation of fertile cloned rats by regulating oocyte activation. Science 2003;302:1179.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Barkham R. Real Estate and Globalisation. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Banerjee S, Mukherjee V, Haldar SK, editors. Understanding Development: An Indian Perspective on Legal and Economic Policy. 1st ed. 2016. New Delhi: Springer India; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Boehm M, Habich D, Preissler S, Lehner W, Wloka U. Vectorizing Instance-Based Integration Processes. In: Filipe J, Cordeiro J, editors. Enterprise Information Systems: 11th International Conference, ICEIS 2009, Milan, Italy, May 6-10, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 40–52.

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]

Andrews R. We Are Going To Breach The 2C Warming Limit By 2050, Warn World’s Leading Climate Scientists. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/we-are-going-to-breach-the-2c-warming-limit-by-2050-warn-worlds-leading-climate-scientists/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Information on the Labor Department’s Skill Training Improvement Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bonilla E. Parental Employment Status and Child Feeding Practices Among African American and Latina Adolescent Girls. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Stewart S. High Spirits on the Intracoastal. New York Times 2015:TR10.

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