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

Smaglik, Paul. 2002. “Boston: A Magnetic Hub.” Nature 417 (6886): 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lord, Christopher J., and Alan Ashworth. 2012. “The DNA Damage Response and Cancer Therapy.” Nature 481 (7381): 287–294.

A journal article with 3 authors

Babaev, Egor, Asle Sudbø, and N. W. Ashcroft. 2004. “A Superconductor to Superfluid Phase Transition in Liquid Metallic Hydrogen.” Nature 431 (7009): 666–668.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Engelbrecht, Bettina M. J., Liza S. Comita, Richard Condit, Thomas A. Kursar, Melvin T. Tyree, Benjamin L. Turner, and Stephen P. Hubbell. 2007. “Drought Sensitivity Shapes Species Distribution Patterns in Tropical Forests.” Nature 447 (7140): 80–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burnham, Douglas, and Ole Martin Skilleås. 2012. The Aesthetics of Wine. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Braimoh, Ademola K., and Paul L. G. Vlek, eds. 2008. Land Use and Soil Resources. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Gerovitch, Slava. 2016. “Creative Discomfort: The Culture of the Gelfand Seminar at Moscow University.” In Mathematical Cultures: The London Meetings 2012-2014, edited by Brendan Larvor, 51–70. Trends in the History of Science. 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

Andrew, Danielle. 2016. “Should You Avoid The Rio Olympics Because Of The Zika Virus?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/should-zika-really-stop-you-going-to-the-rio-olympics-here-are-the-facts/.

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. 2005. Financial Market Organizations Have Taken Steps to Protect against Electronic Attacks, but Could Take Additional Actions. GAO-05-679R. 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

Jackson, Marcia E. 2010. “Where Are the Parents: The Parent’s Perspective of Parental Involvement in Education.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: 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

Murphy, Mary J. O. 2015. “‘Bond, James Bond,’ Through the Years.” New York Times, November 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002; Lord and Ashworth 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lord and Ashworth 2012)
Three authors: (Babaev, Sudbø, and Ashcroft 2004)
4 or more authors: (Engelbrecht et al. 2007)

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)