How to format your references using the Transportmetrica A: Transport Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transportmetrica A: Transport Science. 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

Trivedi, Bijal P. 2012. “Neuroscience: Hardwired for Taste.” Nature 486 (7403): S7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, Jianke, and Francis Ka-Ming Chan. 2014. “Cell Biology. RIPK3 Takes Another Deadly Turn.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 (6177): 1322–1323.

A journal article with 3 authors

Benham-Pyle, Blair W., Beth L. Pruitt, and W. James Nelson. 2015. “Cell Adhesion. Mechanical Strain Induces E-Cadherin-Dependent Yap1 and β-Catenin Activation to Drive Cell Cycle Entry.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6238): 1024–1027.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gauthier-Clerc, M., Y. Le Maho, Y. Clerquin, S. Drault, and Y. Handrich. 2000. “Penguin Fathers Preserve Food for Their Chicks.” Nature 408 (6815): 928–929.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kiehl, Anita R., and Maron Brown Calderwood Mays. 2016. Atlas for the Diagnosis of Tumors in the Dog and Cat. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ye, Jun, and Steven T. Cundiff, eds. 2005. Femtosecond Optical Frequency Comb: Principle, Operation, and Applications. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Górny, Michal, and Sylwester J. Rzoska. 2005. “Experimental Solutions for Nonlinear Dielectric Studies in Complex Liquids.” In Nonlinear Dielectric Phenomena in Complex Liquids, edited by Sylwester J. Rzoska and Vitaly P. Zhelezny, 45–53. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Transportmetrica A: Transport Science.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2017. “Elephants Sleep The Least Of Any Mammal – Just Two Hours A Day.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1991. Automobile Weight and Safety. T-PEMD-91-2. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beyer, Patrick D. 2010. “Authentic Leadership In-Extremis: A Study of Combat Leadership.” Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella University.

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

Kolomatsky, Michael. 2017. “Detroit Home Market Warms Up.” New York Times, September 14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trivedi 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Trivedi 2012; Zhang and Chan 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Chan 2014)
Three authors: (Benham-Pyle, Pruitt, and Nelson 2015)
4 or more authors: (Gauthier-Clerc et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportmetrica A: Transport Science
ISSN (print)	2324-9935
ISSN (online)	2324-9943
Scope	General Engineering Transportation