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

Lee, C.-T.A., 2004. Geophysics. Are Earth’s core and mantle on speaking terms? Science 306, 64–65.

A journal article with 2 authors

Michaelis, S., Hrycyna, C.A., 2013. Biochemistry. A protease for the ages. Science 339, 1529–1530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cacace, F., de Petris, G., Troiani, A., 2002. Experimental detection of tetranitrogen. Science 295, 480–481.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bottke, W.F., Jr, Vokrouhlický, D., Broz, M., Nesvorný, D., Morbidelli, A., 2001. Dynamical spreading of asteroid families by the Yarkovsky effect. Science 294, 1693–1696.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blackwood, N., 2014. Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mangiameli, S. (Ed.), 2014. Italian Regionalism: Between Unitary Traditions and Federal Processes: Investigating Italy’s Form of State, Essays on Federalism and Regionalism. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Guccio, C., Martorana, M.F., Mazza, I., Rizzo, I., 2016. Technology and Public Access to Cultural Heritage: The Italian Experience on ICT for Public Historical Archives, in: Borowiecki, K.J., Forbes, N., Fresa, A. (Eds.), Cultural Heritage in a Changing World. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 55–75.

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

Davis, J., 2017. Cause Of Mysterious “Nodding Syndrome” May Have Been Discovered [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, 1989. Training Programs: Information on Fiscal Years 1989 and 1990 Appropriations (No. HRD-89-71FS). 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

Eisenberg, D.A., 2012. Effectiveness of an eel curriculum on student achievement for the California earth science standard on ocean currents A comparative analysis (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Krieger, S., 2016. Thumbing, Old and New. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lee, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Lee, 2004; Michaelis and Hrycyna, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Michaelis and Hrycyna, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Bottke et al., 2001)

About the journal

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

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