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

Mukhopadhyay, S., 2012. Early differentiation and volatile accretion recorded in deep-mantle neon and xenon. Nature 486, 101–104.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yoshida, N., Kanda, J., 2012. Geochemistry. Tracking the Fukushima radionuclides. Science 336, 1115–1116.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshida, N., Omukai, K., Hernquist, L., 2008. Protostar formation in the early universe. Science 321, 669–671.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Matzuk, M.M., Burns, K.H., Viveiros, M.M., Eppig, J.J., 2002. Intercellular communication in the mammalian ovary: oocytes carry the conversation. Science 296, 2178–2180.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mattu, A., Grossman, S.A., Rosen, P.L., 2016. Geriatric Emergencies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Cash, B.D. (Ed.), 2013. Colorectal Cancer Screening and Computerized Tomographic Colonography: A Comprehensive Overview. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Jingura, R.M., 2012. Socio-Economy, Agro-Ecological Zones, Agronomic Practices and Farming System of Jatropha curcas L. in Sub-Saharan Africa, in: Carels, N., Sujatha, M., Bahadur, B. (Eds.), Jatropha, Challenges for a New Energy Crop: Volume 1: Farming, Economics and Biofuel. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 53–69.

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

Hamilton, K., 2016. Why Sad Songs Say So Much (To Some People, But Not Others) [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1973. Protecting the Consumer From Potentially Harmful Shellfish (Clams, Mussels, and Oysters) (No. B-164031(2)). 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

Heatlie, J.M., 2015. Effects of Simulation on Senior Nursing Students’ Patient Safety Competence: A Quantitative Study (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2011. Shuttle’s End Leaves NASA A Pension Bill. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mukhopadhyay, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Mukhopadhyay, 2012; Yoshida and Kanda, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Yoshida and Kanda, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Matzuk et al., 2002)

About the journal

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