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

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

Neelakantan, S., 2013. Psychology: Mind over myocardium. Nature 493, S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Riser, S.C., Johnson, K.S., 2008. Net production of oxygen in the subtropical ocean. Nature 451, 323–325.

A journal article with 3 authors

Casanova-Sáez, R., Candela, H., Micol, J.L., 2014. Combined haploinsufficiency and purifying selection drive retention of RPL36a paralogs in Arabidopsis. Sci. Rep. 4, 4122.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pushp, A., Parker, C.V., Pasupathy, A.N., Gomes, K.K., Ono, S., Wen, J., Xu, Z., Gu, G., Yazdani, A., 2009. Extending universal nodal excitations optimizes superconductivity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta. Science 324, 1689–1693.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Turner, J.R., Durham, T.A., 2008. Integrated Cardiac Safety: Assessment Methodologies for Noncardiac Drugs in Discovery, Development, and Postmarketing Surveillance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zolle, I. (Ed.), 2007. Technetium-99m Pharmaceuticals: Preparation and Quality Control in Nuclear Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Nakamura, S., 2016. Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Kinetics, in: Sugiyama, M., Fujii, K., Nakamura, S. (Eds.), Solar to Chemical Energy Conversion: Theory and Application, Lecture Notes in Energy. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 57–65.

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 C.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2015. Watch What Ants Do When A Phone Starts To Ring [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, 1977. Review of NASA Contract To Determine Procedures Used in Negotiating Noncompetitive Contracts (No. 104925). 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

Randolph, J.L., 2017. A Mixed-Methods Investigation of FMS Shoulder Mobility and Reported Upper Body Injury in Collegiate Football Athletes at a Division II Midwestern University (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

George, T., 2016. Thumbelina’s Secret Architect. New York Times A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Neelakantan, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Neelakantan, 2013; Riser and Johnson, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Riser and Johnson, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Pushp et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Research Part C
Abbreviation	Transp. Res. Part C Emerg. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0968-090X
Scope	Computer Science Applications Automotive Engineering Transportation