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:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX 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

Hotamisligil, G. S. (2006). Inflammation and metabolic disorders. Nature, 444(7121), 860–867.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nandagopal, N., & Elowitz, M. B. (2011). Synthetic biology: integrated gene circuits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6047), 1244–1248.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gustafson, J. L., Lim, D., & Miller, S. J. (2010). Dynamic kinetic resolution of biaryl atropisomers via peptide-catalyzed asymmetric bromination. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5983), 1251–1255.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Duewell, P., Kono, H., Rayner, K. J., Sirois, C. M., Vladimer, G., Bauernfeind, F. G., Abela, G. S., Franchi, L., Nuñez, G., Schnurr, M., Espevik, T., Lien, E., Fitzgerald, K. A., Rock, K. L., Moore, K. J., Wright, S. D., Hornung, V., & Latz, E. (2010). NLRP3 inflammasomes are required for atherogenesis and activated by cholesterol crystals. Nature, 464(7293), 1357–1361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, C. L. (2012). Distillation Control. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wittrock, U. (Ed.). (2005). Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop Münster, Germany, Oct. 19–24, 2003 (Vol. 102). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gkoulalas-Divanis, A., & Verykios, V. S. (2010). Summary. In V. S. Verykios (Ed.), Association Rule Hiding for Data Mining (pp. 25–25). Springer US.

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

Taub, B. (2016, December 9). Most People Are Prone To “Remembering” Fake Events. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/most-people-prone-remembering-fake-events/

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. (1999). Customs Service Modernization: Ineffective Software Development Processes Increase Customs System Development Risks (AIMD-99-35). 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

Arntson, J. D. (2015). Heidegger and disclosive rhetoric: Two divergent paths in immanence and transcendence [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

Robles, F. (2016, June 24). Police Officers Are Haunted by Grisly Scene Inside Orlando Club. New York Times, A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hotamisligil, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Hotamisligil, 2006; Nandagopal & Elowitz, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Nandagopal & Elowitz, 2011)
Three authors: (Gustafson et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Duewell et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Sport Science
Abbreviation	EJSS (Champaign)
ISSN (print)	1746-1391
ISSN (online)	1536-7290
Scope	General Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation