How to format your references using the IATSS Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IATSS Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

P. Coppens, Chemistry. A phase transition hidden in higher dimensions, Science 319 (2008) 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Dutton, K. Lambeck, Ice volume and sea level during the last interglacial, Science 337 (2012) 216–219.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H.-J. Kim, J.-H. Lee, J.-H. Cho, Antiferromagnetic Slater insulator phase of Na₂IrO₃, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5253.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Xiao, H. Murakami, H. Suga, A.R. Ferré-D’Amaré, Structural basis of specific tRNA aminoacylation by a small in vitro selected ribozyme, Nature 454 (2008) 358–361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

bauforumstahl e.V., Beispiele zur Bemessung von Stahltragwerken nach DIN EN 1993 Eurocode 3, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

S. Ramanathan, ed., Thin Film Metal-Oxides: Fundamentals and Applications in Electronics and Energy, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Botero, How Primate Mothers and Infants Communicate: Characterizing Interaction in Mother–Infant Studies, in: M. Pina, N. Gontier (Eds.), The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 83–99.

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 IATSS Research.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Here’s What Your House Dust Reveals About You, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/here-s-what-your-house-dust-says-about-you/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Training Necessary to Address Data Reliability Issues in NASA Agreement Database and to Minimize Potential Competition with Commercial Sector, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.M. Quackenbush, The Imaginal Stone: Stories of self and world, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2010.

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

[1]

D.A. Kelly, 36 Hours | Concord, Mass, New York Times (2002) F4.

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	IATSS Research
ISSN (print)	0386-1112
Scope	General Engineering Safety Research Transportation Urban Studies