How to format your references using the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR). 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

Rakic, P. Neuroscience. No More Cortical Neurons for You. Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 313, No. 5789, 2006, pp. 928–929.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brimioulle, R., and T. Bach. Enantioselective Lewis Acid Catalysis of Intramolecular Enone [2+2] Photocycloaddition Reactions. Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 342, No. 6160, 2013, pp. 840–843.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, J., B. Wang, and H. Qiu. Coalescence and Breakup of Oppositely Charged Droplets. Scientific reports, Vol. 4, 2014, p. 7123.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Favrin, G., D. M. Bean, E. Bilsland, H. Boyer, B. E. Fischer, S. Russell, D. C. Crowther, H. A. Baylis, S. G. Oliver, and M. E. Giannakou. Identification of Novel Modifiers of Aβ Toxicity by Transcriptomic Analysis in the Fruitfly. Scientific reports, Vol. 3, 2013, p. 3512.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bullock, J. Wireshark® for Security Professionals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 2017.

An edited book

Faucher, C., and L. C. Jain, Eds. Innovations in Intelligent Machines-4: Recent Advances in Knowledge Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Guerreiro, R. P. R. Accessibility of Database Information to Facilitate Early Detection of Extreme Events to Help Mitigate Their Impacts on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. In Natural Disasters and Extreme Events in Agriculture: Impacts and Mitigation (M. V. K. Sivakumar, R. P. Motha, and H. P. Das, eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 51–70.

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 Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

Blog post

Taub, B. Artificial Intelligence Can Accurately Predict The Result Of Human Rights Trials. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence-accurately-predict-result-human-rights-trials/. Accessed Oct. 30, 2018.

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. Rail Transit: Additional Federal Leadership Would Enhance FTA’s State Safety Oversight Program. Publication GAO-06-821. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Plumer, D. R. The Relationship between Earned Value Management Metrics and Customer Satisfaction. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ, 2010.

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

Saslow, L. Replacing Yellow Buses, With Green in Mind. New York Times, Oct 27, 2006, p. LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Abbreviation	Transp. Res. Rec.
ISSN (print)	0361-1981
ISSN (online)	2169-4052
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering