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

Petley, David N. 2013. “Geophysics. Characterizing Giant Landslides.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 339 (6126): 1395–1396.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ratcliff, William Croft, and Robert Ford Denison. 2011. “Microbiology. Alternative Actions for Antibiotics.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6029): 547–548.

A journal article with 3 authors

Godfrey, Dale I., Daniel G. Pellicci, and Mark J. Smyth. 2004. “Immunology. The Elusive NKT Cell Antigen--Is the Search Over?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 306 (5702): 1687–1689.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rolly, Brice, Jean-Michel Geffrin, Redha Abdeddaim, Brian Stout, and Nicolas Bonod. 2013. “Controllable Emission of a Dipolar Source Coupled with a Magneto-Dielectric Resonant Subwavelength Scatterer.” Scientific Reports 3 (October): 3063.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tolin, David F., Blaise L. Worden, Bethany M. Wootton, and Christina M. Gilliam. 2017. CBT for Hoarding Disorder. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sharma, Deepansh. 2016. Biosurfactants of Lactic Acid Bacteria. Edited by Baljeet Singh Saharan and Shailly Kapil. 1st ed. 2016. SpringerBriefs in Microbiology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown, Mark A. 2014. “Worlds Enough, and Time: Musings on Foundations.” In Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action, edited by Thomas Müller, 99–121. Outstanding Contributions to Logic. Cham: 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 the Philosophy of Sport.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2015. “Miniature Brains Grown Quickly And Cheaply.” 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. 2006. NASA: Sound Management and Oversight Key to Addressing Crew Exploration Vehicle Project Risks. GAO-06-1127T. 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

Rogers, Samuel. 2014. “Teacher Induction Programs: How Key Components Influence Teacher Retention Rates in Rural School Districts.” Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Lyall, Sarah. 2016. “No Nobel Ceremony for Dylan. He’s Busy.” New York Times, November 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petley 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Petley 2013; Ratcliff and Denison 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ratcliff and Denison 2011)
Three authors: (Godfrey, Pellicci, and Smyth 2004)
4 or more authors: (Rolly et al. 2013)

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)