How to format your references using the Urban Rail Transit citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Urban Rail Transit. 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

O’Brien K (2015) CLIMATE CHANGE. Political agency: The key to tackling climate change. Science 350:1170–1171

A journal article with 2 authors

Voss R, Nelemans G (2008) Discovery of the progenitor of the type Ia supernova 2007on. Nature 451:802–804

A journal article with 3 authors

Thomson KS, Sutton M, Thomas B (2003) A larval Devonian lungfish. Nature 426:833–834

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Blackburn TM, Cassey P, Duncan RP, et al (2004) Avian extinction and mammalian introductions on oceanic islands. Science 305:1955–1958

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond B (2008) Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Patel M (2010) The Role of Model Integration in Complex Systems Modelling: An Example from Cancer Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kuijf HJ, Tax CMW, Zaanen LK, et al (2014) The Added Value of Diffusion Tensor Imaging for Automated White Matter Hyperintensity Segmentation. In: O’Donnell L, Nedjati-Gilani G, Rathi Y, et al (eds) Computational Diffusion MRI: MICCAI Workshop, Boston, MA, USA, September 2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 45–53

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 Urban Rail Transit.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Scientists Identify Genes Associated With Violent Crime. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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) Exiting Program Improvement. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Picchini AM (2010) Neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus: Modulation of stem cell fate by experience. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Greenhouse L (2005) A Ceremonial Start to the Session as the Supreme Court Welcomes a New Chief Justice. New York Times A25

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Urban Rail Transit
Abbreviation	Urban Rail Transit
ISSN (print)	2199-6687
ISSN (online)	2199-6679
Scope