How to format your references using the Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives citation style

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

Thompson, J.K., 2015. Quantum physics: Atomic doughnuts from single photons. Nature 519, 420–422.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerson, A.R., Guglielmo, C.G., 2011. Flight at low ambient humidity increases protein catabolism in migratory birds. Science 333, 1434–1436.

A journal article with 3 authors

King, M.C., Lusk, C.P., Blobel, G., 2006. Karyopherin-mediated import of integral inner nuclear membrane proteins. Nature 442, 1003–1007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jin, H., Sperka, T., Herrlich, P., Morrison, H., 2006. Tumorigenic transformation by CPI-17 through inhibition of a merlin phosphatase. Nature 442, 576–579.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tsujimura, T., 2017. OLED Display Fundamentals and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

Kaiser, M.I., Scholz, O.R., Plenge, D., Hüttemann, A. (Eds.), 2014. Explanation in the Special Sciences: The Case of Biology and History, Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Jung, K.W., Myung, S.-J., 2016. Technique, Interpretation and Clinical Application of Anorectal Manometry and Balloon Expulsion Test, in: Ghoshal, U.C. (Ed.), Evaluation of Gastrointestinal Motility and Its Disorders. Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 31–47.

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 Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Texting While Walking Does Very Silly Things To Your Gait [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/texting-while-walking-does-very-silly-things-to-your-gait/ (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, 1980. Controls Over Nonimmigrant Aliens Remain Ineffective (No. GGD-80-87). 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

Alsobrook, J.A., 2013. Music Education in America: A Content Analysis and National Perspective of Standards-Based Outcomes for K–8 General Music (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Weber, B., 2016. Henry Worsley, a British Adventurer Trying to Cross Antarctica, Dies at 55. New York Times A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thompson, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gerson and Guglielmo, 2011; Thompson, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gerson and Guglielmo, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Jin et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
ISSN (print)	2590-1982
Scope