How to format your references using the European Sport Management Quarterly citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Sport Management Quarterly. 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 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

Rona, P. A. (2003). Geology. Resources of the sea floor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5607), 673–674.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rogulja, D., & Young, M. W. (2012). Control of sleep by cyclin A and its regulator. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6076), 1617–1621.

A journal article with 3 authors

Unterreithmeier, Q. P., Weig, E. M., & Kotthaus, J. P. (2009). Universal transduction scheme for nanomechanical systems based on dielectric forces. Nature, 458(7241), 1001–1004.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Chen, I.-W. P., Huang, C.-Y., Jhou, S.-H. S., & Zhang, Y.-W. (2014). Exfoliation and performance properties of non-oxidized graphene in water. Scientific Reports, 4, 3928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt, W. (2000). Optische Spektroskopie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Bouguettaya, A. (2009). Access to Mobile Services (X. Yang, Ed.; Vol. 38). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Bandyopadhyay, S., & Pal, S. K. (2007). Theoretical Analysis of the GA-classifier. In S. K. Pal (Ed.), Classification and Learning Using Genetic Algorithms: Applications in Bioinformatics and Web Intelligence (pp. 81–107). 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 Sport Management Quarterly.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, February 8). Aerial Footage Of The Enormous Antarctic Ice Crack That’s Worrying Scientists. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/aerial-video-shows-the-awesome-beauty-of-a-huge-antarctic-ice-crack/

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). Mass Transit: Status of New Starts Transit Projects With Full Funding Grant Agreements (RCED-99-240). 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

Compagna-Doll, V. A. (2017). Unearthing the Third: The Crone in Depth Psychotherapy [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, January 19). Starless Dreams. New York Times, C10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rona, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Rogulja & Young, 2012; Rona, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Rogulja & Young, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Sport Management Quarterly
Abbreviation	Eur. Sport Manag. Q.
ISSN (print)	1618-4742
ISSN (online)	1746-031X
Scope	Strategy and Management Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management