How to format your references using the European Transport Research Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Transport Research Review. 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

Haldeman J (2000) Brochure. The apocalypse: a great day out for the whole family. Nature 405:401

A journal article with 2 authors

Dufour SC, Felbeck H (2003) Sulphide mining by the superextensile foot of symbiotic thyasirid bivalves. Nature 426:65–67

A journal article with 3 authors

Flachsova M, Sindelka R, Kubista M (2013) Single blastomere expression profiling of Xenopus laevis embryos of 8 to 32-cells reveals developmental asymmetry. Sci Rep 3:2278

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shelton AO, Samhouri JF, Stier AC, Levin PS (2014) Assessing trade-offs to inform ecosystem-based fisheries management of forage fish. Sci Rep 4:7110

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schattke W, Díez Muiño R (2013) Quantum Monte Carlo Programming. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Berglund J, Shanneik Y, Bocking B (2016) Religious Education in a Global-Local World. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Khattab A, Perkins D, Bayoumi M (2013) Rate-Adaptive Probabilistic Approach for Opportunistic Spectrum Access. In: Perkins D, Bayoumi M (eds) Cognitive Radio Networks: From Theory to Practice. Springer, New York, NY, pp 41–47

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 European Transport Research Review.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Belgian Doctors Help Provide First Ever Assisted Suicide For A Minor. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/belgian-doctors-help-provide-first-ever-assisted-suicide-for-a-minor/. 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 (2011) Telecommunications: Enhanced Data Collection and Analysis Could Inform FCC’s Efforts to Complete the Digital Transition of Low-Power Television Stations and Reallocate Spectrum. 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

Graves KA (2012) An Exploration of Organizational Commitment among Generation X Leaders. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Kelly M (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Undeclared Candidate; Where Perot Exhibits A Lifetime of Memories. New York Times 18

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	European Transport Research Review
Abbreviation	Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1867-0717
ISSN (online)	1866-8887
Scope	Automotive Engineering Mechanical Engineering Transportation