How to format your references using the Journal of Transportation Security citation style

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

Palese P (2012) Don’t censor life-saving science. Nature 481:115

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee WL, Grinstein S (2004) Immunology. The tangled webs that neutrophils weave. Science 303:1477–1478

A journal article with 3 authors

Kusano K, Johnson-Schlitz DM, Engels WR (2001) Sterility of Drosophila with mutations in the Bloom syndrome gene--complementation by Ku70. Science 291:2600–2602

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Eldrett JS, Harding IC, Wilson PA, et al (2007) Continental ice in Greenland during the Eocene and Oligocene. Nature 446:176–179

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ambachtsheer KP (2016) The Future of Pension Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Morrell J, Jackson MJ (eds) (2009) Machining with Nanomaterials. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Berg S, Nyberg T, Kubart T (2008) Modelling of Reactive Sputtering Processes. In: Depla D, Mahieu S (eds) Reactive Sputter Deposition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 131–152

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 Transportation Security.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Hug Hormone Oxytocin Boosts Bonding By Releasing Cannabis-Like Molecules. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/hug-hormone-oxytocin-boosts-bonding-releasing-cannabis-molecules/. 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 (1992) Visibility and Leadership: The Changing Federal Role in Education. 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

Liyakath RA (2012) Reconfigurable Antenna and RF Circuits Using Multi-Layer Stretchable Conductors. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Barron J (2016) Ghosts of Elections Past. New York Times C30

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Palese 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Lee and Grinstein 2004; Palese 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Grinstein 2004)
Three or more authors: (Eldrett et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Transportation Security
Abbreviation	J. Transp. Secur.
ISSN (print)	1938-7741
ISSN (online)	1938-775X
Scope	Management Science and Operations Research Law Safety Research Sociology and Political Science Transportation Political Science and International Relations