How to format your references using the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 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

Egolf, DA. Statistical mechanics. Far from equilibrium. Science 296: 1813–1815, 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Atran, S and Ginges, J. Religious and sacred imperatives in human conflict. Science 336: 855–857, 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

Iwata, M, Hiyama, A, and Otaki, JM. System-dependent regulations of colour-pattern development: a mutagenesis study of the pale grass blue butterfly. Sci Rep 3: 2379, 2013.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Boal, AK, Ilhan, F, DeRouchey, JE, et al. Self-assembly of nanoparticles into structured spherical and network aggregates. Nature 404: 746–748, 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marvin, S. Dictionary of Scientific Principles. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Landoni, G, Ruggeri, L, and Zangrillo, A (eds.). Reducing Mortality in the Perioperative Period. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Johannes, WJ and Smilde, PL. Qualitative Interpretation. In: Gravity Interpretation: Fundamentals and Application of Gravity Inversion and Geological Interpretation. Smilde, PL, ed. . Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009. pp. 181–231

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 Strength and Conditioning Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Antarctic Temperatures Reach Record Highs. IFLScience. , 2015.Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/antarctic-temperature-record-broken/

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. National Assessment of Educational Progress: Its Results Need To Be Made More Useful. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Taylor, WA. Every citizen a soldier: The U.S. Army’s campaign for universal military training following World War II. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2010.

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

Zuckert, B. Desperately Searching for Track 16. New York Times. A20, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (3,4).
This sentence cites four references (3,5,7,8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
Abbreviation	J. Strength Cond. Res.
ISSN (print)	1064-8011
ISSN (online)	1533-4287
Scope	General Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation