How to format your references using the Public Transport citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Public Transport. 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

Bender E (2015) Big data in biomedicine: 4 big questions. Nature 527:S19

A journal article with 2 authors

Pera M, Trounson A (2013) Cloning debate: Stem-cell researchers must stay engaged. Nature 498:159–161

A journal article with 3 authors

Nuth JA 3rd, Hill HG, Kletetschka G (2000) Determining the ages of comets from the fraction of crystalline dust. Nature 406:275–276

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen H, Chandrasekar S, Sheetz MP, et al (2013) Mechanical perturbation of filamin A immunoglobulin repeats 20-21 reveals potential non-equilibrium mechanochemical partner binding function. Sci Rep 3:1642

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simmons M, Dalgleish E (2006) Corporate Actions. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Hameurlain A, Küng J, Wagner R (eds) (2012) Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems V. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Souza J, Botega LC, Santarém Segundo JE, et al (2015) Conceptual Framework to Enrich Situation Awareness of Emergency Dispatchers. In: Yamamoto S (ed) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge in Context: 17th International Conference, HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 33–44

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 Public Transport.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Imagining Strange New Lifeforms Could Help Us Discover Our Own Origins. In: IFLScience. 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 (1974) Problems in Providing Education Overseas for Dependents of U.S. Personnel. 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

Shamsai M (2006) Prefabricated Cage System for Reinforcing Concrete Members. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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 (2017) Off to Italy to Study Art: An Ex-Inmate’s Journey. New York Times A22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bender 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Pera and Trounson 2013; Bender 2015).

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

Two authors: (Pera and Trounson 2013)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Public Transport
ISSN (print)	1866-749X
ISSN (online)	1613-7159
Scope	Information Systems Management Science and Operations Research Mechanical Engineering Transportation