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

Feinberg, A. P. (2007). Phenotypic plasticity and the epigenetics of human disease. Nature, 447(7143), 433–440.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gribble, P. L., & Scott, S. H. (2002). Overlap of internal models in motor cortex for mechanical loads during reaching. Nature, 417(6892), 938–941.

A journal article with 3 authors

Greiner, J., Cuby, J. G., & McCaughrean, M. J. (2001). An unusually massive stellar black hole in the Galaxy. Nature, 414(6863), 522–525.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Choudhury, D., Pal, B., Sharma, A., Bhat, S. V., & Sarma, D. D. (2013). Magnetization in electron- and Mn-doped SrTiO3. Scientific Reports, 3, 1433.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon, L., & Ospina, J. (2015). Closed-Form Solutions for Drug Transport through Controlled-Release Devices in Two and Three Dimensions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fridrich, J. (Ed.). (2005). Information Hiding: 6th International Workshop, IH 2004, Toronto, Canada, May 23-25, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3200). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Carless, M. A., & Griffiths, L. R. (2011). Cytogenetics of Primary Skin Tumors. In M. J. Murphy (Ed.), Molecular Diagnostics in Dermatology and Dermatopathology (pp. 57–72). Humana Press.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, January 24). New Crab Species Honors Harry Potter (And The Crustacean Of Secrets). IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-crab-species-honors-harry-potter-and-the-crustacean-of-secrets/

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. (1993). Transition From School to Work: H.R. 2884 Addresses Components of Comprehensive Strategy (T-HRD-93-32). 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

Byrd, M. L. (2012). Investigating an Afterschool Program for Black Teenage Males Designed to Increase Self-Efficacy [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Protess, B. (2017, May 12). Lawyer Is Now Regulating Banking Industry He Has Spent a Career Protecting. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Feinberg, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Feinberg, 2007; Gribble & Scott, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Gribble & Scott, 2002)
Three authors: (Greiner et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Choudhury 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