How to format your references using the Human Movement Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Movement 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

Soper, A. K. (2002). Thermodynamics. Water and ice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5585), 1288–1289.

A journal article with 2 authors

Paukner, C., & Koziol, K. K. K. (2014). Ultra-pure single wall carbon nanotube fibres continuously spun without promoter. Scientific Reports, 4, 3903.

A journal article with 3 authors

Isabel, G., Pascual, A., & Preat, T. (2004). Exclusive consolidated memory phases in Drosophila. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5673), 1024–1027.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Davis, C. H., Li, Y., McConnell, J. R., Frey, M. M., & Hanna, E. (2005). Snowfall-driven growth in East Antarctic ice sheet mitigates recent sea-level rise. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5730), 1898–1901.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hein, H., & Kunze, W. (2005). Umweltanalytik mit Spektrometrie und Chromatographie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Faure, C., Di Lorenzo, C., & Thapar, N. (Eds.). (2013). Pediatric Neurogastroenterology: Gastrointestinal Motility and Functional Disorders in Children. Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Wefel, S., & Molitor, P. (2009). Client Hardware-Token Based Single Sign-On over Several Servers without Trusted Online Third Party Server. In J. H. Park, J. Zhan, C. Lee, G. Wang, T.-H. Kim, & S.-S. Yeo (Eds.), Advances in Information Security and Its Application: Third International Conference, ISA 2009, Seoul, Korea, June 25-27, 2009. Proceedings (pp. 29–36). 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 Human Movement Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, March 25). Silver Shines As Antibacterial For Medical Implants. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/silver-shines-antibacterial-medical-implants/

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. (2004). Prekindergarten: Four Selected States Expanded Access by Relying on Schools and Existing Providers of Early Education and Care to Provide Services (GAO-04-852). 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

Cervantes, I. (2013). Flexural retrofitting of reinforced concrete structures using Green Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymer plates [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

Pilon, M. (2014, June 22). Eat, Stretch, Turn Off Your Cellphone. New York Times, TR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Soper, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Paukner & Koziol, 2014; Soper, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Paukner & Koziol, 2014)
Three authors: (Isabel et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Davis et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Human Movement Science
Abbreviation	Hum. Mov. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0167-9457
Scope	Biophysics General Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Experimental and Cognitive Psychology