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

Johnson, K. (2002). Astronomy. Infant globular clusters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5582), 776–777.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moser, A. L., & Bellan, P. M. (2012). Magnetic reconnection from a multiscale instability cascade. Nature, 482(7385), 379–381.

A journal article with 3 authors

Collins, P. G., Arnold, M. S., & Avouris, P. (2001). Engineering carbon nanotubes and nanotube circuits using electrical breakdown. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5517), 706–709.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zeng, X., Goetz, J. A., Suber, L. M., Scott, W. J., Jr, Schreiner, C. M., & Robbins, D. J. (2001). A freely diffusible form of Sonic hedgehog mediates long-range signalling. Nature, 411(6838), 716–720.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frikha, M. (2013). Ad Hoc Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sanchez, A. R. (2010). Technical Support Essentials: Advice You Can Use to Succeed in Technical Support (J. Pepper, C. Andres, S. Anglin, M. Beckner, E. Buckingham, G. Cornell, J. Gennick, J. Hassell, M. Lowman, M. Moodie, D. Parkes, F. Pohlmann, D. Pundick, B. Renow-Clarke, D. Shakeshaft, M. Wade, T. Welsh, J. Markham, & K. Stence, Eds.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Awange, J. L., Grafarend, E. W., Paláncz, B., & Zaletnyik, P. (2010). Groebner basis. In E. W. Grafarend, B. Paláncz, & P. Zaletnyik (Eds.), Algebraic Geodesy and Geoinformatics (pp. 33–47). 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

Carpineti, A. (2017, March 14). Third Law Of Thermodynamics Proven By Finding The Maximum Speed Of Cooling. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/third-law-of-thermodynamics-proven-by-finding-the-maximum-speed-of-cooling/

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. (2000). Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Light Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard, Model Year 2002 (OGC-00-28). 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

D’Ambrosio, J. L. (2013). Perspectives on the Geomorphic Evolution and Ecology of Modified Channels and Two-Stage Ditches in the Agriculturally-Dominated Midwestern United States [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State University.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011, May 29). Success and Scandal Can Leave Everyone Weary. New York Times, SP7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Johnson, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Johnson, 2002; Moser & Bellan, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Moser & Bellan, 2012)
Three authors: (Collins et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Zeng et al., 2001)

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

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