How to format your references using the Transportation in Developing Economies citation style

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

Walsh CA (2013) Peter Huttenlocher (1931-2013). Nature 502:172

A journal article with 2 authors

Osborn TJ, Briffa KR (2006) The spatial extent of 20th-century warmth in the context of the past 1200 years. Science 311:841–844

A journal article with 3 authors

Kwak S-H, Shen R, Schiefelbein J (2005) Positional signaling mediated by a receptor-like kinase in Arabidopsis. Science 307:1111–1113

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yarrow K, Haggard P, Heal R, et al (2001) Illusory perceptions of space and time preserve cross-saccadic perceptual continuity. Nature 414:302–305

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Collins D (2008) Magic in the Ancient Greek World. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Baba A, Howard KWF, Gunduz O (2006) Groundwater and Ecosystems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Abdinia S, van Roermund AHM, Cantatore E (2015) Digital Circuit Design. In: van Roermund A, Cantatore E (eds) Design of Organic Complementary Circuits and Systems on Foil. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 47–67

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 in Developing Economies.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Scientists Find “Reset” Button For The Body Clock. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-reveal-how-our-body-clocks-reset/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1989) Drug Testing: Management Problems and Legal Challenges Facing DOT’s Industry Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nuno ZS (2012) Visible and mid-infrared optical studies of plasmon and phonon resonant nanoparticles using apertureless near-field scanning optical microscopy. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) In the Pool, Autism Is No Barrier to Winning. New York Times C7

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 in Developing Economies
Abbreviation	Transp. Dev. Econ.
ISSN (print)	2199-9287
ISSN (online)	2199-9295
Scope

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