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

Müller-Wodarg, ICF. Planetary science. Exploring other worlds to learn more about our own. Science 312: 1319–1320, 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

Racki, G and Koeberl, C. Comment on “Impact ejecta layer from the mid-Devonian: possible connection to global mass extinctions.” Science 303: 471; author reply 471, 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roberts, JM, Wheeler, AJ, and Freiwald, A. Reefs of the deep: the biology and geology of cold-water coral ecosystems. Science 312: 543–547, 2006.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Huang, H, Regan, KM, Lou, Z, Chen, J, and Tindall, DJ. CDK2-dependent phosphorylation of FOXO1 as an apoptotic response to DNA damage. Science 314: 294–297, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Machin, D and Campbell, MJ. Design of Studies for Medical Research. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005.

An edited book

Giusto, D, Iera, A, Morabito, G, and Atzori, L (eds.). The Internet of Things: 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications. New York, NY: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Herath, D, Secchi, D, and Homberg, F. The Effects of Disorganization on Goals and Problem Solving. In: Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior: New Frontiers of Social Science Research. Secchi, D and Neumann, M, eds. . Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. pp. 63–84

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

Andrew, E. What On Earth Was This Mysterious Light In The Sky Above The West Coast Last Night? IFLScience. , 2015.Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-earth-was-mysterious-light-sky-above-west-coast-last-night/

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. Security at Nation’s Highest Risk Airports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Song, H-J. Strategic Constraints of Economic Interdependence: South Korea’s Changing Strategy in the Face of a Rising China. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2014.

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

Kelly, R. A Repulsively Lonely Man. New York Times. 71, 1995.

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 (2,4).
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