How to format your references using the Economics of Transportation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Economics of Transportation. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Simonton, D.K., 2013. After Einstein: Scientific genius is extinct. Nature 493, 602.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickner, W., Schekman, R., 2005. Protein translocation across biological membranes. Science 310, 1452–1456.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jensen, K., Call, J., Tomasello, M., 2007. Chimpanzees are rational maximizers in an ultimatum game. Science 318, 107–109.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kitano, M., Nakaya, M., Nakamura, T., Nagata, S., Matsuda, M., 2008. Imaging of Rab5 activity identifies essential regulators for phagosome maturation. Nature 453, 241–245.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonilla, L.L., Teitsworth, S.W., 2010. Nonlinear Wave Methods for Charge Transport. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Vittorini, P., Gennari, R., Marenzi, I., Prieta, F. de la, Rodríguez, J.M.C. (Eds.), 2012. International Workshop on Evidence-Based Technology Enhanced Learning, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Osipov, G., Smirnov, I., Tikhomirov, I., Sochenkov, I., Shelmanov, A., Shvets, A., 2014. Information Retrieval for R&D support, in: Paltoglou, G., Loizides, F., Hansen, P. (Eds.), Professional Search in the Modern World: COST Action IC1002 on Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 45–69.

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 Economics of Transportation.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Explosive Rock Exfoliation Caught On Film [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1996. Emergency Relief: Status of the Replacement of the Cypress Viaduct (No. RCED-96-136). 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

Fearrington, N.D., 2008. The relationship between fathers’ pre -natal involvement with the mother and post -natal involvement with the child(ren) (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Feeney, K., 2010. More Than Just a Deli. New York Times NJ11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Simonton, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Simonton, 2013; Wickner and Schekman, 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Wickner and Schekman, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kitano et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economics of Transportation
Abbreviation	Econ. Transp.
ISSN (print)	2212-0122
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Transportation