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

Snyder, S. H. (2005). Obituary: Julius Axelrod (1912-2004). Nature, 433(7026), 593.

A journal article with 2 authors

Steinhardt, P. J., & Turok, N. (2002). A cyclic model of the universe. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5572), 1436–1439.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sahu, G., Sukumaran, S., & Bera, A. K. (2014). Pannexins form gap junctions with electrophysiological and pharmacological properties distinct from connexins. Scientific Reports, 4, 4955.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jevtov, I., Samuelsson, T., Yao, G., Amsterdam, A., & Ribbeck, K. (2014). Zebrafish as a model to study live mucus physiology. Scientific Reports, 4, 6653.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tadros, T. F. (2010). Colloids in Paints. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Chaki, N., & Cortesi, A. (Eds.). (2011). Computer Information Systems – Analysis and Technologies: 10th International Conference, CISIM 2011, Kolkata, India, December 14-16, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 245). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kenna, H. (2013). How to Prepare the Best Possible Curriculum Vitae. In L. W. Roberts (Ed.), The Academic Medicine Handbook: A Guide to Achievement and Fulfillment for Academic Faculty (pp. 35–39). 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

Andrews, R. (2015, October 6). 20 Million-Year-Old Flea Could Contain Ancient Ancestor Of Bubonic Plague. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/black-deaths-ancestor-preserved-amber/

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. (2000). FTS2001: Improving the Revenue Estimation Process (AIMD-00-147R). 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

Comorau, N. (2009). Postcolonial refashionings: Reading forms, reading novels [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2005, February 15). A Choreographer Vanishes In Murky Russian Mystery. New York Times, E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Snyder, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Snyder, 2005; Steinhardt & Turok, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Steinhardt & Turok, 2002)
Three authors: (Sahu et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Jevtov et al., 2014)

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