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

Smaglik, P., 2003. Cracking the combination. Nature 423, 463.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwab, M.E., Buchli, A.D., 2012. Drug research: plug the real brain drain. Nature 483, 267–268.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conway, S.L., Shinbrot, T., Glasser, B.J., 2004. A Taylor vortex analogy in granular flows. Nature 431, 433–437.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, B., Wang, L., Xu, M., Tao, H., Zou, J., Gao, D., Lan, L., Ning, H., Peng, J., Cao, Y., 2014. Efficient hybrid white organic light-emitting diodes with extremely long lifetime: the effect of n-type interlayer. Sci. Rep. 4, 7198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Polushkin, V., 2005. Nuclear Electronics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ajzenstadt, M., Gal, J. (Eds.), 2010. Children, Gender and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States, Children¿s Well-Being: Indicators and Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Caldarini, C., Catalano, P., Piccioli, A., Spinelli, M.S., Zavaroni, F., 2015. Joint Degenerative Pathologies, in: Gazzaniga, V., Catalano, P. (Eds.), Bones: Orthopaedic Pathologies in Roman Imperial Age. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 83–101.

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

Andrew, E., 2013. Neanderthal genome shows high levels of inbreeding [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, 2000. Early Childhood Programs: Characteristics Affect the Availability of School Readiness Information (No. HEHS-00-38). 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

Boysen, J., 2008. The ESCRT machinery, required for endosomal trafficking, is a pH-signaling platform (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Saslow, L., 2007. Suffolk Seeks Ways to Ease School Taxes. New York Times LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Schwab and Buchli, 2012; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Schwab and Buchli, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

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