How to format your references using the Transportation Research Part B citation style

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

Rosset, P., 2011. Preventing hunger: change economic policy. Nature 479, 472–473.

A journal article with 2 authors

Langlais, B., Amit, H., 2008. Planetary science. The past Martian dynamo. Science 321, 1784–1785.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conard, N.J., Grootes, P.M., Smith, F.H., 2004. Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd. Nature 430, 198–201.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bennett, J.T., Stickney, H.L., Choi, W.-Y., Ciruna, B., Talbot, W.S., Schier, A.F., 2007. Maternal nodal and zebrafish embryogenesis. Nature 450, E1-2; discussion E2-4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Darling-Hammond, L., Meyerson, D., LaPointe, M., Terry Orr, M., Barber, M., Cohen, C., Dailey, K., Davis, S., Flessa, J., Murphy, J., Pecheone, R., Tushnet, N., 2009. Preparing Principals for a Changing World. Jossey-Bas, San Francisco, CA, USA.

An edited book

Resch, M., Bönisch, T., Benkert, K., Bez, W., Furui, T., Seo, Y. (Eds.), 2006. High Performance Computing on Vector Systems: Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, March 2005. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Duda, P., Pietruczuk, L., Jaworski, M., Krzyzak, A., 2016. On the Cesàro-Means-Based Orthogonal Series Approach to Learning Time-Varying Regression Functions, in: Rutkowski, L., Korytkowski, M., Scherer, R., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L.A., Zurada, J.M. (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing: 15th International Conference, ICAISC 2016, Zakopane, Poland, June 12-16, 2016, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 37–48.

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 Part B.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. The Dusky Dottyback, A Master Of Disguise In The Animal World [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, 1986. Deaf Education: Costs and Student Characteristics at Federally Assisted Schools (No. HRD-86-64BR). 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

Decker, K.M., 2013. A study of relationships between counselor education, social justice advocacy competence, and likelihood to advocate (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Feeney, K., 2010. Irish Inspiration; French Twists. New York Times NJ16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rosset, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Langlais and Amit, 2008; Rosset, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Langlais and Amit, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Bennett et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Research Part B
Abbreviation	Trans. Res. Part B: Methodol.
ISSN (print)	0191-2615
Scope	Management Science and Operations Research Transportation