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

Kampinga HH. Molecular biology: It takes two to untangle. Nature 2015;524:169–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reyes N, Gadsby DC. Ion permeation through the Na+,K+-ATPase. Nature 2006;443:470–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Poon VY, Klassen MP, Shen K. UNC-6/netrin and its receptor UNC-5 locally exclude presynaptic components from dendrites. Nature 2008;455:669–73.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kim JH, Woo HR, Kim J, Lim PO, Lee IC, Choi SH, et al. Trifurcate feed-forward regulation of age-dependent cell death involving miR164 in Arabidopsis. Science 2009;323:1053–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chu L-Y, Wang W. Microfluidics for Advanced Functional Polymeric Materials. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2017.

An edited book

Bock HG, Carraro T, Jäger W, Körkel S, Rannacher R, Schlöder JP, editors. Model Based Parameter Estimation: Theory and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013. X, 334 p. 83 illus., 26 illus. in color. (Contributions in Mathematical and Computational Sciences; vol. 4).

A chapter in an edited book

D’Onofrio M, Barbi E, De Robertis R, Principe F, Gallotti A, Martone E. Intraoperative Ultrasonography of the Pancreas. In: D’Onofrio M, editor. Ultrasonography of the Pancreas: Imaging and Pathologic Correlations. Milano: Springer, 2012.p.55–61.

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

Fang J. Your Genes May Decide Whether Or Not Ebola Would Kill You [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience, 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/genes-may-decide-whether-mice-infected-ebola-will-survive-or-not/

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. Review of Ohio State Plan for the Education of Handicapped Children. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 Apr. Report No.: 088676.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Eaddy M. An empirical assessment of the crosscutting concern problem [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University, 2008.

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

Feeney K. For Foods and ‘a Few Things.’ New York Times 2009 May 17;NJ17.

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