How to format your references using the Transport Policy citation style

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

Lovley, D.R., 2001. Bioremediation. Anaerobes to the rescue. Science 293, 1444–1446.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freeman, M.R., Choi, B.C., 2001. Advances in magnetic microscopy. Science 294, 1484–1488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu, Q., Geng, Y., Sicinski, P., 2001. Specific protection against breast cancers by cyclin D1 ablation. Nature 411, 1017–1021.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Subramaniam, S., Sixt, K.M., Barrow, R., Snyder, S.H., 2009. Rhes, a striatal specific protein, mediates mutant-huntingtin cytotoxicity. Science 324, 1327–1330.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wartenberg, T.E., 2013. A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Gaj, P., Kwiecień, A., Stera, P. (Eds.), 2015. Computer Networks: 22nd International Conference, CN 2015, Brunów, Poland, June 16-19, 2015. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Mekid, S., Starr, A., Pietruszkiewicz, R., 2010. Intelligent Wireless Sensors, in: Holmberg, K., Adgar, A., Arnaiz, A., Jantunen, E., Mascolo, J., Mekid, S. (Eds.), E-Maintenance. Springer, London, pp. 83–123.

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 Transport Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Planet Earth Now Has A Flag [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, 1976. Summary of Improvement Actions Taken by the Government Printing Office in the Utilization and Management of Automatic Data Processing Resources (No. FGMSD-76-58). 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

Zinda, E.S., 2017. American Cerberus: Pit Bulls and Psyche in the United States (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Kelly, C., 2013. When Hill Country Feels Too Much Like Shreveport. New York Times A23B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lovley, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Freeman and Choi, 2001; Lovley, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Freeman and Choi, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Subramaniam et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transport Policy
Abbreviation	Transp. Policy (Oxf.)
ISSN (print)	0967-070X
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Law Transportation