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

Harley, D., 2013. Scholarly communication: cultural contexts, evolving models. Science 342, 80–82.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anglada-Escudé, G., Tuomi, M., 2015. Exoplanet detection. Comment on “Stellar activity masquerading as planets in the habitable zone of the M dwarf Gliese 581.” Science 347, 1080.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cravatt, B.F., Simon, G.M., Yates, J.R., 3rd, 2007. The biological impact of mass-spectrometry-based proteomics. Nature 450, 991–1000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Singh, P.K., Schaefer, A.L., Parsek, M.R., Moninger, T.O., Welsh, M.J., Greenberg, E.P., 2000. Quorum-sensing signals indicate that cystic fibrosis lungs are infected with bacterial biofilms. Nature 407, 762–764.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell, D.L., 2006. Practical Wastewater Treatment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chen, S., Li, Y.F., Zhang, J., Wang, W. (Eds.), 2008. Active Sensor Planning for Multiview Vision Tasks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Padula, F., Visioli, A., 2015. $$\fancyscript{H}_\infty $$ H ∞ Control of Fractional Systems, in: Visioli, A. (Ed.), Advances in Robust Fractional Control. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 93–108.

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

Luntz, S., 2016. The Oceans Are Losing Their Largest Species [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, 1990. Guaranteed Student Loans: Credit Bureau Reporting Practices by Guaranty Agencies and Lenders (No. HRD-90-71BR). 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

Howard, R., 2015. Aging well adult day care center (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

Roberts, S., 2015. Vasily Pichul, 54, Director of ‘Little Vera.’ 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 (Harley, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Anglada-Escudé and Tuomi, 2015; Harley, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Anglada-Escudé and Tuomi, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Singh et al., 2000)

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