How to format your references using the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 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

Zhou, Y. (2015). The rapid rise of a research nation. Nature, 528(7582), S170-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hewak, D., & Gholipour, B. (2012). Materials science. Primed to remember. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6088), 1515–1516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Solter, L. F., Kyei-Poku, G. K., & Johny, S. (2013). Comment on “Invasive harlequin ladybird carries biological weapons against native competitors.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6152), 1342.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hashimoto, S., Matsuura, T., Nanko, K., Linkov, I., Shaw, G., & Kaneko, S. (2013). Predicted spatio-temporal dynamics of radiocesium deposited onto forests following the Fukushima nuclear accident. Scientific Reports, 3, 2564.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bai, Y. (2012). Practical Database Programming with Visual Basic.NET. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rosette, J. J. M. C. H. de la, & Gill, I. S. (Eds.). (2005). Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery in Malignancies. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hofmann, E., Maucher, D., Piesker, S., & Richter, P. (2011). Measures for Strengthening Internal Financing Power from a Supply Chain Viewpoint. In D. Maucher, S. Piesker, & P. Richter (Eds.), Ways Out of the Working Capital Trap: Empowering Self-Financing Growth Through Modern Supply Management (pp. 55–73). 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 International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017, April 6). Depicting Film Baddies With Skin Conditions Is Damaging To Real Sufferers, Say Dermatologists. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/depicting-film-baddies-with-skin-conditions-is-damaging-to-real-sufferers-say-dermatologists/

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. (2003). Education and Care: Head Start Key Among Array of Early Childhood Programs, but National Research on Effectiveness Not Completed (GAO-03-840T). 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

Thiss, P. J. (2009). Effects of dedicated academic support services on the persistence rates of California Community College student-athletes [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

Schwartz, J., Shear, M. D., & Paulson, M. (2014, August 14). New Tack on Unrest Eases Tension in Missouri. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zhou, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hewak & Gholipour, 2012; Zhou, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hewak & Gholipour, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Hashimoto et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Sport Exerc. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1612-197X
ISSN (online)	1557-251X
Scope	Applied Psychology Social Psychology