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

Bosch, X. (2000). Spain in quandary over French synchrotron. Nature, 405(6787), 604.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fekete, D. M., & Noden, D. M. (2013). Developmental biology. A transition in the middle ear. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6126), 1396–1397.

A journal article with 3 authors

Halevy, I., Zuber, M. T., & Schrag, D. P. (2007). A sulfur dioxide climate feedback on early Mars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5858), 1903–1907.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Tamaki, S., Matsuo, S., Wong, H. L., Yokoi, S., & Shimamoto, K. (2007). Hd3a protein is a mobile flowering signal in rice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5827), 1033–1036.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Solomon, R. (2016). The Art of Client Service. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Barnhill, R. L., Piepkorn, M. W., & Busam, K. J. (Eds.). (2014). Pathology of Melanocytic Nevi and Melanoma (3rd ed. 2014). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Casado-Sanz, E., Barco-Laakso, R., Antuña, S., & Rodríguez-Merchán, E. C. (2015). Shoulder Surgery in Hemophilia. In E. C. Rodríguez-Merchán (Ed.), Joint Surgery in the Adult Patient with Hemophilia (pp. 37–42). Springer International Publishing.

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

Hale, T. (2015, November 11). Which Countries Consume The Most Antidepressants? IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2008). Examples of Job Hopping by Commercial Drivers After Failing Drug Tests (GAO-08-829R). 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

Verderame, N. (2013). An educational curriculum for registered dietitians to educate obese patients on the nutrition approach for stress management [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Barron, J. (2017, January 29). In the Age of Reality TV, a Best-Selling Author Calls In Real-Life Heroes. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bosch, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bosch, 2000; Fekete & Noden, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Fekete & Noden, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Tamaki et al., 2007)

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