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

Munk, Walter. 2003. “Ocean Science. Ocean Freshening, Sea Level Rising.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5628): 2041–2043.

A journal article with 2 authors

Draine, Bruce T., and Jeremiah P. Ostriker. 2007. “Obituary: Bohdan Paczyński (1940-2007).” Nature 447 (7148): 1065.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aitkaliyeva, Assel, Di Chen, and Lin Shao. 2013. “Phonon Transport Assisted by Inter-Tube Carbon Displacements in Carbon Nanotube Mats.” Scientific Reports 3 (September): 2774.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ito, Hisatoshi, Ryuji Yamada, Akihiro Tamura, Shoji Arai, Kenji Horie, and Tomokazu Hokada. 2013. “Earth’s Youngest Exposed Granite and Its Tectonic Implications: The 10-0.8 Ma Kurobegawa Granite.” Scientific Reports 3: 1306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooney, Kathleen A., Jolynn R. Chappell, Robert J. Callan, and Bruce A. Connally. 2012. Veterinary Euthanasia Techniques. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Mezzadra, Sandro, Julian Reid, and Ranabir Samaddar, eds. 2013. The Biopolitics of Development: Reading Michel Foucault in the Postcolonial Present. New Delhi: Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Whittle, Dennis B. 2016. “How Feedback Loops Can Improve Aid and Governance.” In Broken Pumps and Promises: Incentivizing Impact in Environmental Health, edited by Evan A. Thomas, 31–45. 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “‘I Could Sow The Seeds Of A New Civilisation’: Mars One Hopeful’s Vision Of A Stellar Future.” 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. 1993. School Age Demographics: Recent Trends Pose New Educational Challenges. HRD-93-105BR. 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

Eldanaf, Rola Ghassan. 2012. “Angry Cherub.” 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

Saslow, Linda. 2007. “LIPA Kills Wind Farm Off Jones Beach.” New York Times, August 26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Munk 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Munk 2003; Draine and Ostriker 2007).

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

Two authors: (Draine and Ostriker 2007)
Three authors: (Aitkaliyeva, Chen, and Shao 2013)
4 or more authors: (Ito et al. 2013)

About the journal

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