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

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

Giles, J., 2002. Attosecond science: the fast show. Nature 420, 737.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cunningham, E.J., Russell, A.F., 2000. Egg investment is influenced by male attractiveness in the mallard. Nature 404, 74–77.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bai, G., Zhang, Y., Hao, J., 2014. Tuning of near-infrared luminescence of SrTiO3:Ni2+ thin films grown on piezoelectric PMN-PT via strain engineering. Sci. Rep. 4, 5724.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lange, A., Wickström, S.A., Jakobson, M., Zent, R., Sainio, K., Fässler, R., 2009. Integrin-linked kinase is an adaptor with essential functions during mouse development. Nature 461, 1002–1006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, D.A., 2014. Interpreting Land Records. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Liu, J., Alippi, C., Bouchon-Meunier, B., Greenwood, G.W., Abbass, H.A. (Eds.), 2012. Advances in Computational Intelligence: IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2012, Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012. Plenary/Invited Lectures, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bernardi, C., Auriault, C., Bourrilhon, M., Maruzewski, P., 2014. Numerical Modeling: A Tool for the Decision-Making Process, in: Gourbesville, P., Cunge, J., Caignaert, G. (Eds.), Advances in Hydroinformatics: SIMHYDRO 2012 – New Frontiers of Simulation. Springer, Singapore, pp. 47–64.

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 D.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Blood test predicts Alzheimer’s before symptoms show [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/blood-test-predicts-alzheimers-symptoms-show/ (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, 1994. Hispanic Dropouts and Federal Programs (No. PEMD-94-18R). 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

Giles, C.L., 2015. Faculty mentoring of undergraduate students: A qualitative phenomenological study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. In the Pool, Autism Is No Barrier to Winning. New York Times C7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Giles, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Cunningham and Russell, 2000; Giles, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Cunningham and Russell, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Lange et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Research Part D
Abbreviation	Transp. Res. D Transp. Environ.
ISSN (print)	1361-9209
Scope	General Environmental Science Transportation