How to format your references using the Transportation Research Procedia citation style

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

Baker, M., 2012. Functional genomics: The changes that count. Nature 482, 257, 259–62.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smaglik, P., Frantz, S., 2003. The biotechnology sector’s craving for commercial expertise is fuelling a cultural exchange with drug industry. Nature 422, 542–543.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang, S., Pollack, H.N., Shen, P.Y., 2000. Temperature trends over the past five centuries reconstructed from borehole temperatures. Nature 403, 756–758.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Skaar, E.P., Humayun, M., Bae, T., DeBord, K.L., Schneewind, O., 2004. Iron-source preference of Staphylococcus aureus infections. Science 305, 1626–1628.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yang, H., Lee, E.K., 2016. Healthcare Analytics: From Data to Knowledge to Healthcare Improvement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

O’Donohue, W.T. (Ed.), 2009. Behavioral Approaches to Chronic Disease in Adolescence: A Guide to Integrative Care. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Kulsrisombat, N., 2008. De Facto Urban Regeneration: A Case Study of Chiang Mai City, Thailand, in: Kidokoro, T., Harata, N., Subanu, L.P., Jessen, J., Motte, A., Seltzer, E.P. (Eds.), Sustainable City Regions: Space, Place and Governance, cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 77–100.

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 Procedia.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. How Sharks Could Help Us Regrow Our Own Human Teeth [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-sharks-could-help-us-regrow-our-own-human-teeth/ (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, 2006. No Child Left Behind Act: Education’s Data Improvement Efforts Could Strengthen the Basis for Distributing Title III Funds (No. GAO-07-140). 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

Ficchi, G., 2017. A Qualitative Inquiry: Parental Approaches and Expectations, What Role Does Disability Play? (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Wilson, M., 2017. An Unconventional Witness. New York Times A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Baker, 2012; Smaglik and Frantz, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Smaglik and Frantz, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Skaar et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Research Procedia
ISSN (print)	2352-1465
Scope