How to format your references using the Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics citation style

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

Peplow, Mark. 2013. “Catalysis: The Accelerator.” Nature 495 (7440): S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Jianguo, and Wu Yang. 2012. “Water Management. Water Sustainability for China and Beyond.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 337 (6095): 649–650.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nishida, Harufumi, Kathleen B. Pigg, and John F. Rigby. 2003. “Palaeobotany: Swimming Sperm in an Extinct Gondwanan Plant.” Nature 422 (6930): 396–397.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, Zeneng, Elizabeth Klipfell, Brian J. Bennett, Robert Koeth, Bruce S. Levison, Brandon Dugar, Ariel E. Feldstein, et al. 2011. “Gut Flora Metabolism of Phosphatidylcholine Promotes Cardiovascular Disease.” Nature 472 (7341): 57–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jevon, Phil. 2012. Paediatric Advanced Life Support. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sappa, Angel D. 2013. Multimodal Interaction in Image and Video Applications. Edited by Jordi Vitrià. Vol. 48. Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gourlay, Lesley, and Martin Oliver. 2016. “It’s Not All About the Learner: Reframing Students’ Digital Literacy as Sociomaterial Practice.” In Research, Boundaries, and Policy in Networked Learning, edited by Thomas Ryberg, Christine Sinclair, Sian Bayne, and Maarten de Laat, 77–92. 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 B: Transport Dynamics.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. “Ancient Spider-Like Predator Resurrected.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-spider-predator-resurrected/.

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. 1996. Private Management of Public Schools: Early Experiences in Four School Districts. HEHS-96-3. 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

Moua, Pangkong. 2009. “Differential Functions of the Kinesin-1 Tail in Drosophila Melanogaster Transport Processes.” Doctoral dissertation, Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Markoff, John. 2016. “Robert Fano, 98, a Designer of Computers.” New York Times, July 26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Peplow 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Peplow 2013; Liu and Yang 2012).

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

Two authors: (Liu and Yang 2012)
Three authors: (Nishida, Pigg, and Rigby 2003)
4 or more authors: (Wang et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics
ISSN (print)	2168-0566
ISSN (online)	2168-0582
Scope	Software Modelling and Simulation Transportation