How to format your references using the Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives citation style

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

Spencer, J.R., 2014. Planetary science. Glimpsing eruptions on Europa. Science 343, 148–149.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rodriguez, A., Laio, A., 2014. Machine learning. Clustering by fast search and find of density peaks. Science 344, 1492–1496.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jacobson, T., Liberati, S., Mattingly, D., 2003. A strong astrophysical constraint on the violation of special relativity by quantum gravity. Nature 424, 1019–1021.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pastushenko, I., Brisebarre, A., Sifrim, A., Fioramonti, M., Revenco, T., Boumahdi, S., Van Keymeulen, A., Brown, D., Moers, V., Lemaire, S., De Clercq, S., Minguijón, E., Balsat, C., Sokolow, Y., Dubois, C., De Cock, F., Scozzaro, S., Sopena, F., Lanas, A., D’Haene, N., Salmon, I., Marine, J.-C., Voet, T., Sotiropoulou, P.A., Blanpain, C., 2018. Identification of the tumour transition states occurring during EMT. Nature 556, 463–468.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, R.K., 2012. Visual Data Mining. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Fung, A. (Ed.), 2016. Global Game Industries and Cultural Policy, Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Lellouche, P., 2010. Necessary Progress in the Defence of Europe, in: Arvanitopoulos, C., Botsiou, K.E. (Eds.), The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2010, The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–44.

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 Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Bees Prefer Nectar Laced with Pesticides [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bees-prefer-nectar-laced-pesticides/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1969. Enrollment and Attendance Aspects of Federal Student Financial Aid Programs (No. 092719). 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

Rodgers, R., 2017. Phylogenomic Analysis of Fundulidae Using RNA-Sequencing Data (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Mets Evaluate Their Options at First Base After Duda Is Sidelined by Hip Stiffness. New York Times SP3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spencer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Rodriguez and Laio, 2014; Spencer, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rodriguez and Laio, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Pastushenko et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
ISSN (print)	2590-1982
Scope