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

Bynum, W. Nobel Success: What Makes a Great Lab? Nature, Vol. 490, No. 7418, 2012, pp. 31–32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ralph, T. C., and R. W. Boyd. PHYSICS. Better Computing with Photons. Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 318, No. 5854, 2007, pp. 1251–1252.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mo, Y., K. T. Turner, and I. Szlufarska. Friction Laws at the Nanoscale. Nature, Vol. 457, No. 7233, 2009, pp. 1116–1119.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hoang, C. V., M. Oyama, O. Saito, M. Aono, and T. Nagao. Monitoring the Presence of Ionic Mercury in Environmental Water by Plasmon-Enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy. Scientific reports, Vol. 3, 2013, p. 1175.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khan, M. M., and M. R. Islam. Zero Waste Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

Král, P., and V. Matoušek, Eds. Text, Speech, and Dialogue: 18th International Conference, TSD 2015, Pilsen,Czech Republic, September 14-17, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Cuypers, A., E. Keunen, S. Bohler, M. Jozefczak, K. Opdenakker, H. Gielen, H. Vercampt, A. Bielen, K. Schellingen, J. Vangronsveld, and T. Remans. Cadmium and Copper Stress Induce a Cellular Oxidative Challenge Leading to Damage Versus Signalling. In Metal Toxicity in Plants: Perception, Signaling and Remediation (D. K. Gupta and L. M. Sandalio, eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 65–90.

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. Astronomers Measure Exoplanet’s Day For The First Time. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-measure-exoplanet’s-day-first-time/. 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. GAO Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Publication AIMD-00-81R. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dobbs, J. The Potential Use of PEI Modified Biochar for Different Environmental Applications. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 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

Cooper, M. Temporary Home For Opera in Houston. New York Times, Sep 26, 2017, p. C3.

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