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

Dewandre, N., 2002. Women in science. European strategies for promoting women in science. Science 295, 278–279.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cruz, M., Coontz, R., 2011. Galaxy evolution. A universe of galaxies. Introduction. Science 333, 169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, Y.K., Lee, H., Park, J.Y., 2014. Tandem-structured, hot electron based photovoltaic cell with double Schottky barriers. Sci. Rep. 4, 4580.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, J.W., Beebe, K., Nangle, L.A., Jang, J., Longo-Guess, C.M., Cook, S.A., Davisson, M.T., Sundberg, J.P., Schimmel, P., Ackerman, S.L., 2006. Editing-defective tRNA synthetase causes protein misfolding and neurodegeneration. Nature 443, 50–55.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ziska, L.H., Dukes, J.S., 2010. Weed Biology and Climate Change. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Steen, M. van, Henning, M. (Eds.), 2006. Middleware 2006: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 27-December 1, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, G., Zhang, Q., Yan, X., 2015. $$H_\infty $$ Control, in: Zhang, Q., Yan, Xinggang (Eds.), Analysis and Design of Singular Markovian Jump Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 111–159.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Exposure To Stress As A Child Can Permanently Affect Your DNA [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/exposure-stress-child-can-permanently-affect-your-dna/ (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, 1995. Income Security Issue Area: Active Assignments (No. AA-95-14(4)). 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

Vargo, G., 2010. Social protest and the novel: Chartism, the radical press, and early Victorian fiction (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Casey, N., Abad, S., 2017. Pope Urges Colombians To Accept Peace Accord. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dewandre, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Cruz and Coontz, 2011; Dewandre, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Cruz and Coontz, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2006)

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