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

Cyranoski, David. 2003. “Western Japan: Go West, Young Postdoc.” Nature 424 (6946): 352–353.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brockes, Jeremy P., and Anoop Kumar. 2005. “Appendage Regeneration in Adult Vertebrates and Implications for Regenerative Medicine.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310 (5756): 1919–1923.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tucker, Ward C., Thomas Weber, and Edwin R. Chapman. 2004. “Reconstitution of Ca2+-Regulated Membrane Fusion by Synaptotagmin and SNAREs.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5669): 435–438.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Scorrano, Luca, Scott A. Oakes, Joseph T. Opferman, Emily H. Cheng, Mia D. Sorcinelli, Tullio Pozzan, and Stanley J. Korsmeyer. 2003. “BAX and BAK Regulation of Endoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+: A Control Point for Apoptosis.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5616): 135–139.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rubin, Andrey B. 2014. Fundamentals of Biophysics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bennetzen, Jeffrey L., and Sarah Hake, eds. 2009. Handbook of Maize: Genetics and Genomics. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cipollone, Emanuele, Francesca Cuomo, and Anna Abbagnale. 2010. “A Distributed Procedure for IEEE 802.15.4 PAN Coordinator Election in Emergency Scenarios.” In The Internet of Things: 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications, edited by Daniel Giusto, Antonio Iera, Giacomo Morabito, and Luigi Atzori, 39–48. New York, NY: Springer.

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

Andrews, Robin. 2017. “Solar Power Will Completely Phase Out Coal By 2050.” 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. 1992. NASA Procurement: Approach to Sharing Risk Under Certain Research and Development Contracts Is Starting to Change. T-NSIAD-92-12. 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

Sun, Zaodi. 2013. “A Qualitative Study of Chinese Parents’ Beliefs, Involvement and Challenges in Support of Their Children’s English Language Development in China.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Robertson, Campbell, and Alan Blinder. 2016. “Grim View Emerges as Louisiana Flood Recedes.” New York Times, August 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Cyranoski 2003; Brockes and Kumar 2005).

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

Two authors: (Brockes and Kumar 2005)
Three authors: (Tucker, Weber, and Chapman 2004)
4 or more authors: (Scorrano et al. 2003)

About the journal

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