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

Russo, Eugene. 2004. “Bricks and Mortar. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.” Nature 431 (7010): 882.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wehr, Michael, and Anthony M. Zador. 2003. “Balanced Inhibition Underlies Tuning and Sharpens Spike Timing in Auditory Cortex.” Nature 426 (6965): 442–446.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doligez, Blandine, Etienne Danchin, and Jean Clobert. 2002. “Public Information and Breeding Habitat Selection in a Wild Bird Population.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5584): 1168–1170.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yamasaki, Masayuki, Wei Li, Daniel J. D. Johnson, and James A. Huntington. 2008. “Crystal Structure of a Stable Dimer Reveals the Molecular Basis of Serpin Polymerization.” Nature 455 (7217): 1255–1258.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoppert, Michael. 2005. Microscopic Techniques in Biotechnology. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

González, R. Gilberto, Joshua A. Hirsch, Michael H. Lev, Pamela W. Schaefer, and Lee H. Schwamm, eds. 2011. Acute Ischemic Stroke: Imaging and Intervention. 2nd ed. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, Fei, Qing Shi, Jian Wang, and Hong Guo. 2016. “Atomistic Simulations of Tunneling FETs.” In Tunneling Field Effect Transistor Technology, edited by Lining Zhang and Mansun Chan, 111–149. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Hale, Tom. 2016. “Watch A 24/7 Live Steam Of A Bear Haven In Alaska.” 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. 2003. Transportation Security: Federal Action Needed to Help Address Security Challenges. GAO-03-843. 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

Rivers, Maggie. 2012. “Bridging the Knowledge Gap between the Baby Boomers and the Multigenerations.” 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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. 2005. “Arts, Briefly; Russian Officials Say Looted War Art Can Stay.” New York Times, March 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russo 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Russo 2004; Wehr and Zador 2003).

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

Two authors: (Wehr and Zador 2003)
Three authors: (Doligez, Danchin, and Clobert 2002)
4 or more authors: (Yamasaki et al. 2008)

About the journal

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