How to format your references using the Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering. 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

Anderson, P.W., 2005. Thinking big. Nature 437, 625.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jinnah, S., Jungcurt, S., 2009. Global biological resources. Could access requirements stifle your research? Science 323, 464–465.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coaker, G., Falick, A., Staskawicz, B., 2005. Activation of a phytopathogenic bacterial effector protein by a eukaryotic cyclophilin. Science 308, 548–550.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Garnero, E.J., Maupin, V., Lay, T., Fouch, M.J., 2004. Variable azimuthal anisotropy in Earth’s lowermost mantle. Science 306, 259–261.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Millon, T., Grossman, S., 2007. Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Choi, K.K., 2005. Structural Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization 2: Nonlinear Systems and Applications, Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Klemm, R., Klemm, D., 2013. Gold Production Sites and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt, in: Klemm, D. (Ed.), Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia: Geoarchaeology of the Ancient Gold Mining Sites in the Egyptian and Sudanese Eastern Deserts, Natural Science in Archaeology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 51–339.

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 Traffic and Transportation Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Lab Worker Accidentally Infects Himself With Smallpox-Like Virus [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, 1994. [Comments on DOD Data Center Consolidation Plan] (No. B-254086). 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

Del Cid, E.J., 2009. Services for immigrant families with children in the child welfare system: A grant proposal project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Strides, Often Painful, but Always, Always Forward. New York Times D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Anderson, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Anderson, 2005; Jinnah and Jungcurt, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Jinnah and Jungcurt, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Garnero et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering
ISSN (print)	2095-7564
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Transportation