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

Lincoln, T. (2001). Animal behaviour: Greensleaves. Nature, 410(6826), 318.

A journal article with 2 authors

Finkel, T., & Holbrook, N. J. (2000). Oxidants, oxidative stress and the biology of ageing. Nature, 408(6809), 239–247.

A journal article with 3 authors

Forbes, J. M., Bruinsma, S., & Lemoine, F. G. (2006). Solar rotation effects on the thermospheres of Mars and Earth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5778), 1366–1368.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Patel, N. A., Curiel, S., Sridharan, T. K., Zhang, Q., Hunter, T. R., Ho, P. T. P., Torrelles, J. M., Moran, J. M., Gómez, J. F., & Anglada, G. (2005). A disk of dust and molecular gas around a high-mass protostar. Nature, 437(7055), 109–111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sattler, K. (2005). Thermische Trennverfahren. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Andrews, N., Khalema, N. E., & Assié-Lumumba, N. T. (Eds.). (2015). Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect: Africa’s Development Beyond 2015 (Vol. 58). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Fu, X., Wu, Z., & Chen, G. (2016). Synchronization and Control of Hyper-Networks and Colored Networks. In J. Lü, X. Yu, G. Chen, & W. Yu (Eds.), Complex Systems and Networks: Dynamics, Controls and Applications (pp. 107–129). 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 Journal of Sports Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 29). Mystery In Northern Scotland That Is Baffling Multiple Sclerosis Experts. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mystery-northern-scotland-baffling-multiple-sclerosis-experts/

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. (1998). Month In Review: December 1998: Reports, Testimony, Correspondence, and Other Publications (OPA-99-3). 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

Clark, M. (2011). How Charter School Teachers Act on Perceived Autonomy: A Qualitative Study of Curricular Decisions [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Vecsey, G. (2011, October 29). For the Cardinals, a Classic Finish. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lincoln, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Finkel & Holbrook, 2000; Lincoln, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Finkel & Holbrook, 2000)
Three authors: (Forbes et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Patel et al., 2005)

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