How to format your references using the International Journal of Research in Exercise Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Research in Exercise Physiology (IJREP). 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

Botvinick M. (2004). Neuroscience. Probing the neural basis of body ownership. Science, 305, 782–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu C-Y, Bard AJ. (2002). Pressure-induced insulator conductor transition in a photoconducting organic liquid-crystal film. Nature, 418, 162–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Achlioptas D, D’Souza RM, Spencer J. (2009). Explosive percolation in random networks. Science, 323, 1453–5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Helsen MM, van den Broeke MR, van de Wal RSW, van de Berg WJ, van Meijgaard E, Davis CH, Li Y, Goodwin I. (2008). Elevation changes in Antarctica mainly determined by accumulation variability. Science, 320, 1626–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stein PD. (2016). Pulmonary Embolism. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Shumaker R ed. (2007). Virtual Reality: Second International Conference, ICVR 2007, Held as part of HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Guillot M, Canudas-Romo V. (2016). Revisiting Life Expectancy Rankings in Countries that Have Experienced Fast Mortality Decline. In: Schoen R (ed) Dynamic Demographic Analysis, The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp 51–67.

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 International Journal of Research in Exercise Physiology.

Blog post

Andrews R. (2017). This Interactive Map Of Every Dinosaur Fossil Ever Found Is So Damn Cool. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/interactive-map-every-dinosaur-fossil-found-damn-cool/ [Accessed October 30, 2018].

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. (1990). Loma Prieta Earthquake: Collapse of the Bay Bridge and the Cypress Viaduct. Washington, DC: 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

Hall S. (2011). The use of art therapy to address psychosocial stress among men living with HIV: A grant proposal project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Rojas R. (2016). Prosecutors Set to Begin in Retrial of Patz Suspect. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Research in Exercise Physiology
ISSN (online)	2640-9461
Scope