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

Fenchel, T., 2001. Ecology. Marine bugs and carbon flow. Science 292, 2444–2445.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kluwe, C., Ellington, A.D., 2010. Evolution. RNA GPS. Science 330, 330–331.

A journal article with 3 authors

De Moraes, C.M., Mescher, M.C., Tumlinson, J.H., 2001. Caterpillar-induced nocturnal plant volatiles repel conspecific females. Nature 410, 577–580.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Richard, C., Balavoine, F., Schultz, P., Ebbesen, T.W., Mioskowski, C., 2003. Supramolecular self-assembly of lipid derivatives on carbon nanotubes. Science 300, 775–778.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Giesbrecht, F.G., Gumpertz, M.L., 2005. Planning, Construction, and Statistical Analysis of Comparative Experiments: Giesbrecht/Comparative Experiments, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Vittersø, J. (Ed.), 2016. Handbook of Eudaimonic Well-Being, International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Sprake, J., 2012. Haptic Referencing, in: Sprake, J. (Ed.), Learning-Through-Touring: Mobilising Learners and Touring Technologies to Creatively Explore the Built Environment. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 149–183.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Large Hadron Collider Is Back To Change Our Understanding Of The Universe … Again [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/large-hadron-collider-back-change-our-understanding-universe-again/ (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, 2014. Media Ownership: FCC Should Review the Effects of Broadcaster Agreements on Its Media Policy Goals (No. GAO-14-558). 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

Michaels, J.L., 2009. Changing cooperation to competition disrupts attitudes and valence: First test of a dynamical model (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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., 2016. Review: ‘My Blind Brother,’ Who Is Also a Major Pain. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fenchel, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Fenchel, 2001; Kluwe and Ellington, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kluwe and Ellington, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Richard et al., 2003)

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