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

Good MF (2013) Immunology. Pasteur approach to a malaria vaccine may take the lead. Science 341:1352–1353

A journal article with 2 authors

Stocker TF, Plattner G-K (2014) Climate policy: Rethink IPCC reports. Nature 513:163–165

A journal article with 3 authors

Weir AAS, Chappell J, Kacelnik A (2002) Shaping of hooks in New Caledonian crows. Science 297:981

A journal article with 5 or more authors

McDonald D, Wu L, Bohks SM, et al (2003) Recruitment of HIV and its receptors to dendritic cell-T cell junctions. Science 300:1295–1297

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harper C (2005) Analytic Methods in Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Weidman JC, Jacob WJ (2011) Beyond the Comparative: Advancing Theory and its Application to Practice. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Hemming D, Agnew MD, Goodess CM, et al (2013) Climate Impact Assessments. In: Navarra A, Tubiana L (eds) Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Volume 3: Case Studies. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 61–104

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) The Next Steps of HIV Treatment. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/next-steps-hiv-treatment/. 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 (1999) Aviation Security: FAA’s Actions to Study Responsibilities and Funding for Airport Security and to Certify Screening Companies. 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

Martinez Abadia JM (2014) French for Spanish speakers: A contrastive study of English monolingual, bilingual, and plurilingual adult learners of French. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Barnes B (2016) ‘La La Land’ Leads the Race for the Globes. New York Times C1

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

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