How to format your references using the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport citation style

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

Walton, Krista S. 2015. “Inorganic Chemistry: Movies of a Growth Mechanism.” Nature 523 (7562): 535–536.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, Yawei, and Qiang Sun. 2014. “The Superior Catalytic CO Oxidation Capacity of a Cr-Phthalocyanine Porous Sheet.” Scientific Reports 4 (February): 4098.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berner, Robert A., John M. Vandenbrooks, and Peter D. Ward. 2007. “Evolution. Oxygen and Evolution.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316 (5824): 557–558.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Nakatsuji, Satoru, Yusuke Nambu, Hiroshi Tonomura, Osamu Sakai, Seth Jonas, Collin Broholm, Hirokazu Tsunetsugu, Yiming Qiu, and Yoshiteru Maeno. 2005. “Spin Disorder on a Triangular Lattice.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309 (5741): 1697–1700.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paret, Dominique. 2016. Design Constraints for NFC Devices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Maheshwari, Dinesh K., ed. 2011. Plant Growth and Health Promoting Bacteria. Vol. 18. Microbiology Monographs. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumar, Shailendra, and Sudhirkumar V. Barai. 2011. “Fracture Properties of Concrete Based on the K R Curve Associated with Cohesive Stress Distribution.” In Concrete Fracture Models and Applications, edited by Sudhirkumar V. Barai, 193–234. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 the Philosophy of Sport.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Cave Engraving May Be First Example Of Neanderthal Artwork.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cave-engraving-may-be-first-example-neanderthal-artwork/.

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. 1990. NASA ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information. IMTEC-90-39FS. Washington, DC: 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

Nolan, Sarah A. 2010. “Ecopoetry and Ecocentrism: The Poetics of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Crow, Kelly. 2002. “Fire Chief Questions Closing of Streets.” New York Times, June 30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walton 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Walton 2015; Li and Sun 2014).

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

Two authors: (Li and Sun 2014)
Three authors: (Berner, Vandenbrooks, and Ward 2007)
4 or more authors: (Nakatsuji et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Philosophy of Sport
Abbreviation	J. Phil. Sport
ISSN (print)	0094-8705
ISSN (online)	1543-2939
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Health(social science)