How to format your references using the Transportation Research Part B citation style

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

Ferrari, R., 2011. Ocean science. A frontal challenge for climate models. Science 332, 316–317.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lipinski, C., Hopkins, A., 2004. Navigating chemical space for biology and medicine. Nature 432, 855–861.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gao, Y., Chen, G., Chan, R.H.M., 2014. Naming game on networks: let everyone be both speaker and hearer. Sci. Rep. 4, 6149.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Smith, S.D., Huxman, T.E., Zitzer, S.F., Charlet, T.N., Housman, D.C., Coleman, J.S., Fenstermaker, L.K., Seemann, J.R., Nowak, R.S., 2000. Elevated CO2 increases productivity and invasive species success in an arid ecosystem. Nature 408, 79–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bunker, G., Thomson, D., 2006. Delivering Utility Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Chen, H., Kao, L.S. (Eds.), 2012. Success in Academic Surgery: Part 1. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumar, S., Barai, S.V., 2011. Fracture Properties of Concrete Based on the K R Curve Associated with Cohesive Stress Distribution, in: Barai, S.V. (Ed.), Concrete Fracture Models and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 193–234.

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 Part B.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. Check Out This Drone Footage Of China’s Insanely Huge Radio Telescope [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/drone-footage-chinas-insanely-huge-radio-telescope/ (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, 2003. Mass Transit: FTA Needs to Provide Clear Information and Additional Guidance on the New Starts Ratings Process (No. GAO-03-701). 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

Savvas, C., 2010. Hydroclimate variability and landuse effects on nutrient export from watersheds in the mid-Atlantic United States (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Saslow, L., 2007. Dwindling Funds Jeopardize Immigrant Center. New York Times LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ferrari, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ferrari, 2011; Lipinski and Hopkins, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Lipinski and Hopkins, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Research Part B
Abbreviation	Trans. Res. Part B: Methodol.
ISSN (print)	0191-2615
Scope	Management Science and Operations Research Transportation