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

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

Abbott, A., 2003. Axeing of website article sparks row at Max Planck. Nature 422, 460.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mettetal, J.T., van Oudenaarden, A., 2007. Microbiology. Necessary noise. Science 317, 463–464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Queitsch, C., Sangster, T.A., Lindquist, S., 2002. Hsp90 as a capacitor of phenotypic variation. Nature 417, 618–624.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bhargava, V., Ko, P., Willems, E., Mercola, M., Subramaniam, S., 2013. Quantitative transcriptomics using designed primer-based amplification. Sci. Rep. 3, 1740.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hofmeyr, G.J., Neilson, J.P., Alfirevic, Z., Crowther, C.A., Gülmezoglu, A.M., Hodnett, E.D., Gyte, G.M.L., Duley, L., 2008. A Cochrane Pocketbook: Pregnancy and Childbirth. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Farage, M.A., Miller, K.W., Maibach, H.I. (Eds.), 2010. Textbook of Aging Skin. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sheskin, I., Dashefsky, A., 2014. Jewish Population in the United States, 2013, in: Dashefsky, A., Sheskin, I. (Eds.), American Jewish Year Book 2013: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities, American Jewish Year Book. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 201–277.

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 E.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. First Trial of Pest-Resistant GM Wheat a Failure, Report Scientists [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, 1996. Los Angeles Red Line: Financing Decisions Could Affect This and Other Los Angeles County Rail Capital Projects (No. RCED-96-147). 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

Tuquero, J.M., 2010. A meta-ethnographic synthesis of support services for adult learners in distance learning programs (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

Rothenberg, B., 2016. French Group Suspends Three Players for Unprofessional Behavior. New York Times B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2003; Mettetal and van Oudenaarden, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Mettetal and van Oudenaarden, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Bhargava et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Research Part E
Abbreviation	Transp. Res. Part E: Logist. Trans. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1366-5545
Scope	Business and International Management Transportation