How to format your references using the Transportation citation style

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

Goodman, S.: Geneticist takes top job at museum. Nature. 415, 351 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Sharma, A., Hartwig, J.F.: Metal-catalysed azidation of tertiary C-H bonds suitable for late-stage functionalization. Nature. 517, 600–604 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Karlson, R.H., Cornell, H.V., Hughes, T.P.: Coral communities are regionally enriched along an oceanic biodiversity gradient. Nature. 429, 867–870 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xie, F., Li, J., Tian, W., Li, Y., Feng, J.: Indo-Pacific warm pool area expansion, Modoki activity, and tropical cold-point tropopause temperature variations. Sci. Rep. 4, 4552 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thatcher, A.: God, Sex, and Gender. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2011)

An edited book

Huys, R., Jirsa, V.K. eds: Nonlinear Dynamics in Human Behavior. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Ismail-Zadeh, A., Korotkii, A., Tsepelev, I.: Quasi-Reversibility Method and Its Applications. In: Korotkii, A. and Tsepelev, I. (eds.) Data-Driven Numerical Modelling in Geodynamics: Methods and Applications. pp. 59–82. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Transportation.

Blog post

Davis, J.: There Are Only 30 Critically Endangered Vaquita Left In The World, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/there-are-only-30-critically-endangered-vaquita-left-in-the-world/

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: NASA: Constellation Program Cost and Schedule Will Remain Uncertain Until a Sound Business Case Is Established. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2009)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Zhou, Y.: Resource Management in Wireless Networks: Queue Management and Scheduling in Mesh Networks and Multi-Access Control in Internetworking Systems, (2010)

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

Kishkovsky, S.: October 7-13; Kursk Raised, (2001)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodman 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Goodman 2002; Sharma and Hartwig 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sharma and Hartwig 2015)
Three or more authors: (Xie et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation
Abbreviation	Transportation (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	0049-4488
ISSN (online)	1572-9435
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Development Transportation