How to format your references using the European Journal of Sport Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Sport Science. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles 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
Lightman, A. (2005). A tale of two loves. Nature, 434(7031), 299–300.
A journal article with 2 authors
Strzepek, R. F., & Harrison, P. J. (2004). Photosynthetic architecture differs in coastal and oceanic diatoms. Nature, 431(7009), 689–692.
A journal article with 3 authors
Cai, L., Dalal, C. K., & Elowitz, M. B. (2008). Frequency-modulated nuclear localization bursts coordinate gene regulation. Nature, 455(7212), 485–490.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Douglas, S., Zauner, S., Fraunholz, M., Beaton, M., Penny, S., Deng, L. T., Wu, X., Reith, M., Cavalier-Smith, T., & Maier, U. G. (2001). The highly reduced genome of an enslaved algal nucleus. Nature, 410(6832), 1091–1096.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Smith, D. A., van de Waterbeemd, H., & Walker, D. K. (2006). Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism in Drug Design: SMITH: PHARMACOKINETICS AND METABOLISM IN DRUG DESIGN O-BK. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
An edited book
Lee, K. S. (2016). Integrative Understanding of Shale Gas Reservoirs (T. H. Kim, Ed.; 1st ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Guarnieri, F. A. (2015). Biomechanics of Subtractive Surgery: From ALK to LASIK. In F. A. Guarnieri (Ed.), Corneal Biomechanics and Refractive Surgery (pp. 57–71). 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 European Journal of Sport Science.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2014, July 1). Supercooling Organs Could Lengthen Transplant Window. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/supercooling-organs-could-lengthen-transplant-window/

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. (1975). Contract Award of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to the Institute for Law and Social Research (GGD-76-9). 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
Culumber, J. J. (2017). Physician Practice Survival: The Role of Analytics in Shaping the Future [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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
Michael Kelly With. (1992, October 9). THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Vietnam War; Campaign Focus on Vietnam Reviving Debates of the 60’s. 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 (Lightman, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lightman, 2005; Strzepek & Harrison, 2004).

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

  • Two authors: (Strzepek & Harrison, 2004)
  • Three authors: (Cai et al., 2008)
  • 6 or more authors: (Douglas et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleEuropean Journal of Sport Science
AbbreviationEJSS (Champaign)
ISSN (print)1746-1391
ISSN (online)1536-7290
ScopeGeneral Medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

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