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

Guessoum, N. (2013). Astrophysics: Time for an Arab astronomy renaissance. Nature, 498(7453), 161–164.

A journal article with 2 authors

Willis, J. K., & Church, J. A. (2012). Climate change. Regional sea-level projection. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6081), 550–551.

A journal article with 3 authors

Groisman, A., Enzelberger, M., & Quake, S. R. (2003). Microfluidic memory and control devices. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5621), 955–958.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Schaub, R., Wahlström, E., Rønnau, A., Lagsgaard, E., Stensgaard, I., & Besenbacher, F. (2003). Oxygen-mediated diffusion of oxygen vacancies on the TiO2(110) surface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5605), 377–379.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marston, R. C. (2011). Portfolio Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rivest, L., Bouras, A., & Louhichi, B. (Eds.). (2012). Product Lifecycle Management. Towards Knowledge-Rich Enterprises: IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2012, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 9-11, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 388). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Harrison, L. J. (2014). Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Influences on School Transition. In B. Perry, S. Dockett, & A. Petriwskyj (Eds.), Transitions to School - International Research, Policy and Practice (pp. 61–74). Springer Netherlands.

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. (2015, March 4). Archeologists Uncover Genghis Khan’s Lost Mongolian Fortress. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/archeologists-uncover-genghis-khan-s-lost-mongolian-fortress/

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. (1976). Selected Literature on Cost Accounting and Cost Control for Automatic Data Processing (092323). 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

Mazyck, B. S. (2012). Leadership behavior and teacher attrition: A qualitative phenomenological inquiry of job satisfaction [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Crow, K. (2001, June 24). Healing and Burnout, 12 Hours at a Stretch. New York Times, 152.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guessoum, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Guessoum, 2013; Willis & Church, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Willis & Church, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Schaub et al., 2003)

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