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

Holland DM (2001) Explaining the Weddell Polynya--a large ocean eddy shed at Maud Rise. Science 292:1697–1700

A journal article with 2 authors

Sommer MA, Wurtz RH (2002) A pathway in primate brain for internal monitoring of movements. Science 296:1480–1482

A journal article with 3 authors

Shen HZ, Wang W, Yi XX (2014) Hall conductance and topological invariant for open systems. Sci Rep 4:6455

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chang HH, Hemberg M, Barahona M, et al (2008) Transcriptome-wide noise controls lineage choice in mammalian progenitor cells. Nature 453:544–547

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sundararajan D (2015) Discretewavelet Transform. John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Haddad S, Pomello L (2012) Application and Theory of Petri Nets: 33rd International Conference, PETRI NETS 2012, Hamburg, Germany, June 25-29, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Pratt-Hartmann I (2010) The Two-Variable Fragment with Counting Revisited. In: Dawar A, Queiroz R de (eds) Logic, Language, Information and Computation: 17th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2010, Brasilia, Brazil, July 6-9, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 42–54

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 (2013) Video shows that seahorses are master assassins of the ocean. 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 (2009) Grant Monitoring: Department of Education Could Improve Its Processes with Greater Focus on Assessing Risks, Acquiring Financial Skills, and Sharing Information. 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

Becker M (2017) Women’s Descriptions Six Months Post Notification of Positive BRCA 1/2 Genetic Mutations. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Perlstein L (2008) The Transformer. New York Times BR19

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
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