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

Zimmerman, Eric. 2004. “Recruiters and Academia.” Nature 431 (7011): 1022.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fox, Barbara A., and David J. Bzik. 2002. “De Novo Pyrimidine Biosynthesis Is Required for Virulence of Toxoplasma Gondii.” Nature 415 (6874): 926–929.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Yong, John J. Magan, and Werner J. Blau. 2014. “A General Strategy for Hybrid Thin Film Fabrication and Transfer onto Arbitrary Substrates.” Scientific Reports 4 (April): 4822.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Haumann, M., P. Liebisch, C. Müller, M. Barra, M. Grabolle, and H. Dau. 2005. “Photosynthetic O2 Formation Tracked by Time-Resolved x-Ray Experiments.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310 (5750): 1019–1021.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, D. J. 2005. Cinnolines and Phthalazines: Supplement II. Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds: A Series Of Monographs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ramos, Félix F., Victor Larios Rosillo, and Herwig Unger, eds. 2005. Advanced Distributed Systems: 5th International School and Symposium, ISSADS 2005, Guadalajara, Mexico, January 24-28, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 3563. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Han, Fengxiang X., and Arieh Singer. 2007. “Selective Sequential Dissolution For Trace Elements In Arid Zone Soils.” In Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements in Arid Environments, edited by Arieh Singer, 107–130. Environmental Pollution. 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 B: Transport Dynamics.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “Liquid Gallium Meets A Bluetooth Speaker And A Freaky Dance Ensues.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/liquid-gallium-meets-bluetooth-speaker-freaky-dance-ensues/.

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. 2000. Health Care Access: Programs for Underserved Populations Could Be Improved. T-HEHS-00-81. 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

Zavala, Maria. 2009. “Latinos’ Attitudes towards Receiving Mental Health Services.” 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

Dominus, Susan. 2016. “A Resilient Figure Stumbles, and Her Fans Wince in Turn.” New York Times, September 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zimmerman 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Zimmerman 2004; Fox and Bzik 2002).

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

Two authors: (Fox and Bzik 2002)
Three authors: (Zhang, Magan, and Blau 2014)
4 or more authors: (Haumann et al. 2005)

About the journal

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