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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Review 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

Streicker, D. G. (2013). Science & SciLifeLab Prize. From persistence to cross-species emergence of a viral zoonosis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6163), 1185–1186.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aaronson, D. S., & Horvath, C. M. (2002). A road map for those who don’t know JAK-STAT. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1653–1655.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitfield, C. W., Cziko, A.-M., & Robinson, G. E. (2003). Gene expression profiles in the brain predict behavior in individual honey bees. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5643), 296–299.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Balanyá, J., Oller, J. M., Huey, R. B., Gilchrist, G. W., & Serra, L. (2006). Global genetic change tracks global climate warming in Drosophila subobscura. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5794), 1773–1775.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Isobe, K., Watanabe, W., & Itoh, K. (2013). Functional Imaging by Controlled Nonlinear Optical Phenomena. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jewitt, D. (2008). Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets (A. Morbidelli & H. Rauer, Eds.; Vol. 35). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, Z., & Lu, M. (2016). Economic Opening and Domestic Market Integration. In M. Lu (Ed.), Toward Balanced Growth with Economic Agglomeration: Empirical Studies of China’s Urban-Rural and Interregional Development (pp. 89–109). 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 Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 3). Snorted, Injected Or Smoked? It Can Affect A Drug’s Addictiveness. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/snorted-injected-or-smoked-it-can-affect-drug-s-addictiveness/

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. (2006). No Child Left Behind Act: Education Actions Needed to Improve Implementation and Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services (GAO-06-1121T). 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

Pan, X. (2008). Using Structural Information in Modeling and Multiple Alignments for Phylogenetics [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Yablonsky, L. (2011, September 18). Logos à Go-Go. New York Times, ST3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Streicker, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Aaronson & Horvath, 2002; Streicker, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Aaronson & Horvath, 2002)
Three authors: (Whitfield et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Balanyá et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology
Abbreviation	Int. Rev. Sport Exerc. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1750-984X
ISSN (online)	1750-9858
Scope	Applied Psychology