How to format your references using the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR). 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

Webb, B. Robots in Invertebrate Neuroscience. Nature, Vol. 417, No. 6886, 2002, pp. 359–363.

A journal article with 2 authors

Straub, T., and P. B. Becker. Comment on “Drosophila Dosage Compensation Involves Enhanced Pol II Recruitment to Male X-Linked Promoters.” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 340, No. 6130, 2013, p. 273.

A journal article with 3 authors

Driscoll, R., A. Hudson, and S. P. Jackson. Yeast Rtt109 Promotes Genome Stability by Acetylating Histone H3 on Lysine 56. Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 315, No. 5812, 2007, pp. 649–652.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sang, H., S. P. Jarvis, Z. Zhou, P. Sharp, P. Moriarty, J. Wang, Y. Wang, and L. Kantorovich. Identifying Tips for Intramolecular NC-AFM Imaging via in Situ Fingerprinting. Scientific reports, Vol. 4, 2014, p. 6678.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lindahl, D. Multi-Family Millions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

Bertino, E., and S. A. Matei, Eds. Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Fu, X., Z. Wu, and G. Chen. Synchronization and Control of Hyper-Networks and Colored Networks. In Complex Systems and Networks: Dynamics, Controls and Applications (J. Lü, X. Yu, G. Chen, and W. Yu, eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 107–129.

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 Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

Blog post

Andrew, E. The Rise And Rise Of The 2015 El Niño. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/rise-and-rise-2015-el-ni-o/. Accessed Oct. 30, 2018.

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. Surface Transportation: Prospects for Innovation Through Research, Intelligent Transportation Systems, State Infrastructure Banks, and Design-Build Contracting. Publication T-RCED-97-83. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Bigelow, R. W. Perception of Online Legal Education among Recently Retired Law School Faculty. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2017.

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

Vecsey, G. Remembering Waitz, a Champion and Companion. New York Times, Jun 09, 2011, p. B13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Abbreviation	Transp. Res. Rec.
ISSN (print)	0361-1981
ISSN (online)	2169-4052
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering