How to format your references using the Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development. 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

Mesirov, J. P. 2010. “Computer science. Accessible reproducible research.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 327 (5964): 415–416.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wijffels, R. H., and M. J. Barbosa. 2010. “An outlook on microalgal biofuels.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 329 (5993): 796–799.

A journal article with 3 authors

Menz, M. H. M., K. W. Dixon, and R. J. Hobbs. 2013. “Ecology. Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 339 (6119): 526–527.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choate, K. A., Y. Lu, J. Zhou, M. Choi, P. M. Elias, A. Farhi, C. Nelson-Williams, D. Crumrine, M. L. Williams, A. J. Nopper, A. Bree, L. M. Milstone, and R. P. Lifton. 2010. “Mitotic recombination in patients with ichthyosis causes reversion of dominant mutations in KRT10.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 330 (6000): 94–97.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo, L., R. G. Maunder, J. Wang, and L.-L. Yang. 2010. Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rodriguez, M. A., R. S. Walters, and T. W. Burke, eds. 2013. 60 Years of Survival Outcomes at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gregerson, M. B. 2010. “The Dawning of Desire Skewed Through a Media Lens and the Loss of American Adolescence: M I 4 U?” The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching, edited by M. B. Gregerson, 51–76. New York, NY: Springer.

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 Highway and Transportation Research and Development.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. “Astronomers Discover Stellar Nurseries in Milky Way.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-discover-stellar-nurseries-milky-way/.

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. 1980. Entitlement to the Transportation of Dependents. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kunihiro, A. G. 2014. “The relationship between dietary omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acid intake and colorectal cancer.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Chapman, M. M. 2014. “Bankruptcy Judge Gets View of Detroit Outside Courtroom.” New York Times, August 9, 2014.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mesirov 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Mesirov 2010; Wijffels and Barbosa 2010).

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

Two authors: (Wijffels and Barbosa 2010)
Three or more authors: (Choate et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development
ISSN (online)	2095-6215
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