How to format your references using the Research in Transportation Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Transportation Economics. 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

Vaughan, D. G. (2005). Oceans. How does the Antarctic ice sheet affect sea level rise? Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5730), 1877–1878.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blagosklonny, M. V., & Pardee, A. B. (2002). Conceptual biology: unearthing the gems. Nature, 416(6879), 373.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lustig, R. H., Schmidt, L. A., & Brindis, C. D. (2012). Public health: The toxic truth about sugar. Nature, 482(7383), 27–29.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

McManus, J. F., Francois, R., Gherardi, J.-M., Keigwin, L. D., & Brown-Leger, S. (2004). Collapse and rapid resumption of Atlantic meridional circulation linked to deglacial climate changes. Nature, 428(6985), 834–837.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cornier, J., Owen, A., Kwade, A., & Van de Voorde, M. (2017). Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Innovation and Production. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Pipek, V., Rosson, M. B., Ruyter, B. de, & Wulf, V. (Eds.). (2009). End-User Development: 2nd International Symposium, IS-EUD 2009, Siegen, Germany, March 2-4, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 5435). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ospina, N. S., & Hurley, D. L. (2016). Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Osteoporosis. In A. E. Kearns & R. A. Wermers (Eds.), Hyperparathyroidism: A Clinical Casebook (pp. 27–36). Springer International Publishing.

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 Research in Transportation Economics.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, January 4). Watch This Moth-Controlled Robot Driving Around. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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). Space Station: Contract Oversight and Performance Provisions for Major Work Packages (NSIAD-92-171BR). 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

Byrd, M. L. (2012). Investigating an Afterschool Program for Black Teenage Males Designed to Increase Self-Efficacy [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Vecsey, G. (2010, June 4). Worst Call Ever? Sure. Kill the Umpires? Never. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vaughan, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Blagosklonny & Pardee, 2002; Vaughan, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Blagosklonny & Pardee, 2002)
Three or more authors: (McManus et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Transportation Economics
Abbreviation	Res. Transp. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0739-8859
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Transportation