How to format your references using the Journal of Sport and Health Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sport and Health Science (JSHS). 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

Smaglik P. Turning oil into science: Norway. Nature 2002;420:A13, A15.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pouille F, Scanziani M. Enforcement of temporal fidelity in pyramidal cells by somatic feed-forward inhibition. Science 2001;293:1159–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maffione M, Morris A, Anderson MW. Recognizing detachment-mode seafloor spreading in the deep geological past. Sci Rep 2013;3:2336.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Palatnik JF, Allen E, Wu X, Schommer C, Schwab R, Carrington JC, et al. Control of leaf morphogenesis by microRNAs. Nature 2003;425:257–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chitty J, Raftery A. Essentials of Tortoise Medicine and Surgery. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

Drossopoulou S, editor. Programming Languages and Systems: 17th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2008, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29-April 6, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008. XIII, 402 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 4960).

A chapter in an edited book

Holčapek M, Tichý T. Option Pricing with Fuzzy Parameters via Monte Carlo Simulation. In: Zhou M, editor. Advances in Education and Management: International Symposium, ISAEBD 2011, Dalian, China, August 6-7, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.p.25–33. (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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 Journal of Sport and Health Science.

Blog post

Andrew E. Newly Released Footage Shows A Wild Panda Masturbating. IFLScience. IFLScience, 2014.

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. The National Direct Student Loan Program Requires More Attention by the Office of Education and Participating Institutions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 Jun. Report No.: HRD-77-109.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Miranda PJ. Tightly-coupled sulfur-cycling microbial mats of the White Point hydrothermal vent field, CA: An analog for deep-sea vents [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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

Rockwell J. Berlin Stories. New York Times 2017 Jun 2;BR49.

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	Journal of Sport and Health Science
Abbreviation	J. Sport Health Sci.
ISSN (print)	2095-2546
ISSN (online)	2213-2961
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation