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

Mesirov JP (2010) Computer science. Accessible reproducible research. Science 327:415–416

A journal article with 2 authors

Kossinets G, Watts DJ (2006) Empirical analysis of an evolving social network. Science 311:88–90

A journal article with 3 authors

Doncaster CP, Jackson A, Watson RA (2013) Competitive environments sustain costly altruism with negligible assortment of interactions. Sci Rep 3:2836

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dunah AW, Jeong H, Griffin A, et al (2002) Sp1 and TAFII130 transcriptional activity disrupted in early Huntington’s disease. Science 296:2238–2243

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sundar V (2015) Ocean Wave Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

D’Auria R (2016) From Special Relativity to Feynman Diagrams: A Course in Theoretical Particle Physics for Beginners, 2nd ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Gaul L (2012) Tutorial Guideline VDI 3830: Damping of Materials and Members. In: Allemang R, De Clerck J, Niezrecki C, Blough JR (eds) Topics in Modal Analysis I, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2012. Springer, New York, NY, pp 25–31

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) Watch Expedition 42/43 Crew Launch Live! In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-expedition-4243-crew-launch-live/. 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 (1975) Assessing the Federal Program for Strengthening Developing Institutions of Higher Education. 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

Milner M (2009) An evaluation of the influence of case method instruction on the reflective thinking of MSW students. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Wagner J (2017) Baseball; Rainout Gives Injured Mets More Rest. New York Times B14

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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