How to format your references using the Journal of Sports Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sports Sciences. 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

Lunt, D. (2014). Palaeoclimate science: Causes and effects of Antarctic ice. Nature, 511(7511), 536–537.

A journal article with 2 authors

Padoa-Schioppa, C., & Assad, J. A. (2006). Neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value. Nature, 441(7090), 223–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Serganov, A., Huang, L., & Patel, D. J. (2009). Coenzyme recognition and gene regulation by a flavin mononucleotide riboswitch. Nature, 458(7235), 233–237.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liang, Z., Feng, T., Lok, S., Liu, F., Ng, K. B., Chan, C. H., Wang, J., Han, S., Lee, S., & Li, J. (2013). Space-coiling metamaterials with double negativity and conical dispersion. Scientific Reports, 3, 1614.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johansen, G. A., & Jackson, P. (2005). Radioisotope Gauges for Industrial Process Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rozelot, J.-P., & Neiner, C. (Eds.). (2009). The Rotation of Sun and Stars (Vol. 765). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hunsucker, S. A., Mitchell, B. S., & Spychala, J. (2007). Nucleotidases and Nucleoside Analog Cytotoxicity. In G. J. Peters (Ed.), Deoxynucleoside Analogs In Cancer Therapy (pp. 81–108). 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 Journal of Sports Sciences.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, October 14). Is Your Child A Fussy Eater? It May Be In Their Genes. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/is-your-child-a-fussy-eater-it-may-be-in-their-genes/

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. (1996). FCC: Policies and Rules Concerning Children’s Television Programming--Revision of Programming Policies for Television Broadcast Stations (OGC-96-37). 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

Davis, K. (2010). Manifesting archetypal energy through music [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Sisario, B. (2017, January 11). Springsteen’s Archives: (Where Else?) In Jersey. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lunt, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lunt, 2014; Padoa-Schioppa & Assad, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Padoa-Schioppa & Assad, 2006)
Three authors: (Serganov et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Liang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Sports Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Sports Sci.
ISSN (print)	0264-0414
ISSN (online)	1466-447X
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation