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

Greene MT (2000) High achiever. Nature 407:947

A journal article with 2 authors

Cossart P, Sansonetti PJ (2004) Bacterial invasion: the paradigms of enteroinvasive pathogens. Science 304:242–248

A journal article with 3 authors

Nagao K, Adachi Y, Yanagida M (2004) Separase-mediated cleavage of cohesin at interphase is required for DNA repair. Nature 430:1044–1048

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Price GD, Twitchett RJ, Wheeley JR, Buono G (2013) Isotopic evidence for long term warmth in the Mesozoic. Sci Rep 3:1438

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Salam A (2009) Molecular Quantum Electrodynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Murphy MP, Dukelow F (2016) The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Change. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Hanson CE (2008) High Speed Train Noise Effects on Wildlife and Domestic Livestock. In: Schulte-Werning B, Thompson D, Gautier P-E, et al (eds) Noise and Vibration Mitigation for Rail Transportation Systems: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Railway Noise, Munich, Germany, 4 - 8 September 2007. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 26–32

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

Hale T (2016) The “Gateway To The Underworld” In Siberia Was Created By Climate Change. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/gateway-underworld-siberia-created-climate-change/. 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 (2017) Aviation Research and Development: FAA Could Improve How It Develops Its Portfolio and Reports Its Activities. 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

Zimmerman TF (2010) A descriptive review of the development and implementation of a funding model for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System: The first 10 years, 1998–2008. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Chapman MM (2012) Uncomfortable Accounting. New York Times B1

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