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

Smaglik, P., 2003. The glory of autonomy. Nature 422, 353.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sonenberg, N., Pause, A., 2006. Signal transduction. Protein synthesis and oncogenesis meet again. Science 314, 428–429.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scott, B.A., Avidan, M.S., Crowder, C.M., 2002. Regulation of hypoxic death in C. elegans by the insulin/IGF receptor homolog DAF-2. Science 296, 2388–2391.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cheng, J., Türkel, N., Hemati, N., Fuller, M.T., Hunt, A.J., Yamashita, Y.M., 2008. Centrosome misorientation reduces stem cell division during ageing. Nature 456, 599–604.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, J., Gaare, M., Holguín, J., Bailey, N., Pratley, T., 2016. Professional Clojure. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Miller, S., Leve, L.D., Kerig, P.K. (Eds.), 2012. Delinquent Girls: Contexts, Relationships, and Adaptation. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Bauer, F., Groß, H., 2009. Exploring Terra Incognita – Operating Hours in the Service Sector, in: Smith, M., Cette, G., Bauer, F., Delsen, L. (Eds.), Comparative Analyses of Operating Hours and Working Times in the European Union, Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, pp. 83–115.

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

Andrew, D., 2015. Why Can We See A Woman On Mars? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/rats-crabs-and-now-woman-mars-nasa-hiding-something-or-are-we-just-seeing-things/ (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, 1992. Space Station: NASA’s Software Development Approach Increases Safety and Cost Risks (No. IMTEC-92-39). 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

Ramirez, B.N., 2012. Middle School English Language Learner Electronic Media Usage and Its Relationship to Reading (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, 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., 2017. Puerto Rico’s Power Agency Defaults Over Debt. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2003; Sonenberg and Pause, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Sonenberg and Pause, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Cheng et al., 2008)

About the journal

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