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

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

Chiorescu, I., 2006. Physics. Microwave cooling of an artificial atom. Science 314, 1549–1550.

A journal article with 2 authors

Renshaw, C.E., Schulson, E.M., 2001. Universal behaviour in compressive failure of brittle materials. Nature 412, 897–900.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berg, R.W., Alaburda, A., Hounsgaard, J., 2007. Balanced inhibition and excitation drive spike activity in spinal half-centers. Science 315, 390–393.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, B., Vogan, E.M., Gong, H., Skehel, J.J., Wiley, D.C., Harrison, S.C., 2005. Structure of an unliganded simian immunodeficiency virus gp120 core. Nature 433, 834–841.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hein, H., Kunze, W., 2005. Umweltanalytik mit Spektrometrie und Chromatographie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Louveaux, Q., Skutella, M. (Eds.), 2016. Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization: 18th International Conference, IPCO 2016, Liège, Belgium, June 1-3, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Milojković-Opsenica, D., Andrić, F., 2014. High Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography, in: Inamuddin, Mohammad, A. (Eds.), Green Chromatographic Techniques: Separation and Purification of Organic and Inorganic Analytes. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 81–101.

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 E.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. This Millenia-Old Tree Is Undergoing A Sex Change [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, 2011. Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Internal Control Weaknesses Need to Be Corrected to Help Achieve Security Objectives (No. GAO-11-648T). 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

Ganji, V.G., 2013. Exploring the application of haptic feedback guidance for port crane modernization (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

Gondelman, J., 2017. A Comedian’s Most Important Set. New York Times SR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chiorescu, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chiorescu, 2006; Renshaw and Schulson, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Renshaw and Schulson, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Research Part E
Abbreviation	Transp. Res. Part E: Logist. Trans. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1366-5545
Scope	Business and International Management Transportation