How to format your references using the Transportation Planning and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transportation Planning and Technology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Sincell, M. 2000. “NanoManipulator Lets Chemists Go Mano a Mano With Molecules.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 290 (5496): 1530.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boehm, Michelle, and Frank Slack. 2005. “A Developmental Timing MicroRNA and Its Target Regulate Life Span in C. Elegans.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310 (5756): 1954–1957.

A journal article with 3 authors

Azuma, Shintaro, Ikuo Katayama, and Tomoeki Nakakuki. 2014. “Rheological Decoupling at the Moho and Implication to Venusian Tectonics.” Scientific Reports 4 (March): 4403.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Volkman, Hannah E., Tamara C. Pozos, John Zheng, J. Muse Davis, John F. Rawls, and Lalita Ramakrishnan. 2010. “Tuberculous Granuloma Induction via Interaction of a Bacterial Secreted Protein with Host Epithelium.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327 (5964): 466–469.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Graham, Carl. 2014. Markov Chains: Analytic and Monte Carlo Computations. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Trovati, Marcello, Richard Hill, Ashiq Anjum, Shao Ying Zhu, and Lu Liu, eds. 2015. Big-Data Analytics and Cloud Computing: Theory, Algorithms and Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Martínez, Francisco M. Camacho. 2012. “Hair Loss in Women.” In Handbook of Hair in Health and Disease, edited by Victor R. Preedy, 70–97. Human Health Handbooks No. 1. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.

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 Planning and Technology.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. “Birds Camouflage Nests Using Matching Colors.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2006. Gas Pipeline Safety: Views on Proposed Legislation to Reauthorize Pipeline Safety Provisions. GAO-06-1027T. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Siani, Jennifer Marie. 2009. “Costs and Benefits of Cooperative Infant Care in Wild Golden Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus Rosalia).” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Hodgman, John. 2017. “Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman.” New York Times, April 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sincell 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Sincell 2000; Boehm and Slack 2005).

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

Two authors: (Boehm and Slack 2005)
Three authors: (Azuma, Katayama, and Nakakuki 2014)
4 or more authors: (Volkman et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Planning and Technology
Abbreviation	Transp. Plan. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0308-1060
ISSN (online)	1029-0354
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Transportation