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

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

Krug, R.M., 2014. Influenza: An RNA-synthesizing machine. Nature 516, 338–339.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carlton, J.G., Martin-Serrano, J., 2007. Parallels between cytokinesis and retroviral budding: a role for the ESCRT machinery. Science 316, 1908–1912.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lourens, L.J., Wehausen, R., Brumsack, H.J., 2001. Geological constraints on tidal dissipation and dynamical ellipticity of the Earth over the past three million years. Nature 409, 1029–1033.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sardanyés, J., Simó, C., Martínez, R., Solé, R.V., Elena, S.F., 2014. Variability in mutational fitness effects prevents full lethal transitions in large quasispecies populations. Sci. Rep. 4, 4625.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Summerhayes, S.D., 2016. CDM Regulations 2015 Procedures Manual. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Kano, T., 2006. Evoked Spinal Cord Potentials: An Illustrated Guide to Physiology, Pharmacology, and Recording Techniques. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Yampolskiy, R.V., Rebolledo-Mendez, J.D., Hindi, M.M., 2014. Password Protected Visual Cryptography via Cellular Automaton Rule 30, in: Shi, Y.Q., Liu, F., Yan, W. (Eds.), Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security IX: Special Issue on Visual Cryptography, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–67.

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 C.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Here’s What 1930s Fashion Designers Thought We’d Be Wearing In The Year 2000 [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, 1992. Parent and Supplemental Student Loans: Volume and Default Trends for Fiscal Years 1989 to 1991 (No. HRD-92-138FS). 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

Hartley, D.L., 2010. Transnational jazz and blues: Aural aesthetics and African diasporic fiction (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Brantley, B., 2017. A Princess (Maybe) With an Identity Crisis. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Krug, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Carlton and Martin-Serrano, 2007; Krug, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Carlton and Martin-Serrano, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Sardanyés et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Research Part C
Abbreviation	Transp. Res. Part C Emerg. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0968-090X
Scope	Computer Science Applications Automotive Engineering Transportation