How to format your references using the Journal of Air Transport Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Air Transport Management. 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

Dabby, D.S., 2008. Music theory. Creating musical variation. Science 320, 62–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Voytas, D.F., Joung, J.K., 2009. Plant science. DNA binding made easy. Science 326, 1491–1492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jones, D.L., Brewster, R.C., Phillips, R., 2014. Promoter architecture dictates cell-to-cell variability in gene expression. Science 346, 1533–1536.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kiers, E.T., Duhamel, M., Beesetty, Y., Mensah, J.A., Franken, O., Verbruggen, E., Fellbaum, C.R., Kowalchuk, G.A., Hart, M.M., Bago, A., Palmer, T.M., West, S.A., Vandenkoornhuyse, P., Jansa, J., Bücking, H., 2011. Reciprocal rewards stabilize cooperation in the mycorrhizal symbiosis. Science 333, 880–882.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnett, A.H., Grice, J., 2011. New Mechanisms in Glucose Control. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Gaspar-Cunha, A., Henggeler Antunes, C., Coello, C.C. (Eds.), 2015. Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: 8th International Conference, EMO 2015, Guimarães, Portugal, March 29 --April 1, 2015. Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Baco, E., Berge, V., Rud, E., 2015. How Do We Select Patients Eligible for Focal Therapy? Imaging and Targeted Biopsies: A Basic Prerequisite for Focal Therapy, in: Thüroff, S., Chaussy, C.G. (Eds.), Focal Therapy of Prostate Cancer: An Emerging Strategy for Minimally Invasive, Staged Treatment. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 39–49.

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 Journal of Air Transport Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Move Over Milky Way, Elliptical Galaxies Are The Most Habitable In The Cosmos [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, 1982. Improvements Can Be Made in the Fiscal Management of CETA (No. HRD-82-53). 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

Abedin, G., 2010. Exploring the potential of art-based education for adolescents with learning disabilities: A case study of engagement in learning through the arts (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

McKINLEY, J.C., Jr, 2017. Oakley Rejects Plea Bargain And Demands Day in Court. New York Times A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dabby, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Dabby, 2008; Voytas and Joung, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Voytas and Joung, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Kiers et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Air Transport Management
Abbreviation	J. Air Transp. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0969-6997
Scope	Strategy and Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Law Transportation