How to format your references using the Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour. 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

Antonucci, R. (2013). Astrophysics: Quasars still defy explanation. Nature, 495(7440), 165–167.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hornby, G. S., & Kurtoglu, T. (2009). Computer science. Toward a smarter Web. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5938), 277–278.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eerenstein, W., Mathur, N. D., & Scott, J. F. (2006). Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials. Nature, 442(7104), 759–765.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zheng, Z., Xie, W., Lim, Z. S., You, L., & Wang, J. (2014). CdS sensitized 3D hierarchical TiO2/ZnO heterostructure for efficient solar energy conversion. Scientific Reports, 4, 5721.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stone, C. A., & Zissu, A. (2012). The Securitization Markets Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Willatzen, M. (2009). The k p Method: Electronic Properties of Semiconductors (L. C. Lew Yan Voon, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mazlan, D., & Abdul Awal, A. S. M. (2014). Mechanical Properties of Cement Composites Incorporating Oil Palm Stem Fiber. In R. Hassan, M. Yusoff, Z. Ismail, N. M. Amin, & M. A. Fadzil (Eds.), InCIEC 2013: Proceedings of the International Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Conference 2013 (pp. 51–60). Springer.

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 F: Psychology and Behaviour.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, November 24). The Social Status of Monkeys Alters Their Immune Response. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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). Unsupported Adjustments (AFMD-93-28R). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Teo, Y. M. (2017). Acculturation Levels, Social Media Usage and Their Relationship with Dietary Patterns among Asian American Young Adults [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Pilon, M. (2013, July 1). London. Tokyo. Athens. Tulsa? New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Antonucci, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Antonucci, 2013; Hornby & Kurtoglu, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hornby & Kurtoglu, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour
Abbreviation	Transp. Res. Part F Traffic Psychol. Behav.
ISSN (print)	1369-8478
Scope	Automotive Engineering Applied Psychology Transportation