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

Graf, P., 2003. Hive beetle causes a buzz in Europe. Nature 423, 793.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simpson, S.J., Travis, J., 2007. Testing our defenses. Science 317, 611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biankin, A.V., Piantadosi, S., Hollingsworth, S.J., 2015. Patient-centric trials for therapeutic development in precision oncology. Nature 526, 361–370.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peiter, E., Maathuis, F.J.M., Mills, L.N., Knight, H., Pelloux, J., Hetherington, A.M., Sanders, D., 2005. The vacuolar Ca2+-activated channel TPC1 regulates germination and stomatal movement. Nature 434, 404–408.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Temple, L.P., III, 2013. Implosion. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Grzech, A., Borzemski, L., Świątek, J., Wilimowska, Z. (Eds.), 2016. Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 36th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2015 – Part II, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhao, W., 2014. English Language Teaching in Vocational Senior Secondary Schools in China, in: Coniam, D. (Ed.), English Language Education and Assessment: Recent Developments in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland. Springer, Singapore, pp. 51–68.

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

Davis, J., 2016. New Gene Therapy For Treating Genetic Blindness Offers Hope For Cure [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-gene-therapy-treating-genetic-blindness-offers-hope-cure/ (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, 2007. Reading First: States Report Improvements in Reading Instruction, but Additional Procedures Would Clarify Education’s Role in Ensuring Proper Implementation by States (No. GAO-07-161). 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

Caraballo-Cole, T., 2012. Mindfulness-based mental health services for single mothers: A grant proposal (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

Simonson, J., 2017. Nothing Is Free. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Graf, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Graf, 2003; Simpson and Travis, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Simpson and Travis, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Peiter et al., 2005)

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

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