How to format your references using the Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. 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

Gershon, Diane. 2003. “Proteomics Technologies: Probing the Proteome.” Nature 424 (6948): 581–587.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helffrich, George, and Satoshi Kaneshima. 2010. “Outer-Core Compositional Stratification from Observed Core Wave Speed Profiles.” Nature 468 (7325): 807–810.

A journal article with 3 authors

Locher, Kaspar P., Randal B. Bass, and Douglas C. Rees. 2003. “Structural Biology. Breaching the Barrier.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 301 (5633): 603–604.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zheng, Weiwei, Xia Wang, Dajun Tian, Songhui Jiang, Melvin E. Andersen, Genhsjeng He, M. James C. Crabbe, Yuxin Zheng, Yang Zhong, and Weidong Qu. 2013. “Water Pollutant Fingerprinting Tracks Recent Industrial Transfer from Coastal to Inland China: A Case Study.” Scientific Reports 3 (January): 1031.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hitz, Breck, J. J. Ewing, and Jeff Hecht. 2005. Introduction to Laser Technology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cardone, Fabio. 2007. Deformed Spacetime: Geometrizing Interactions in Four and Five Dimensions. Edited by Roberto Mignani. Vol. 157. Fundamental Theories of Physics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, Lihteh, Raquel Benavides, Andrea Porras, Rafael A. Garcia-Amaris, and J. Fernando Arevalo. 2009. “Angiography of Macular Diseases.” In Retinal Angiography and Optical Coherence Tomography, edited by J. Fernando Arevalo, 61–103. New York, NY: 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 Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Turtle Extinction Event Bodes Ill For Our Waterways.” 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. 2007. Aviation Security: DHS Has Made Progress in Securing the Commercial Aviation System, but Key Challenges Remain. GAO-08-139T. 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

Prasad, Hari. 2017. “Removing a Thorn with a Thorn: Evaluating India’s Use of Militias in Counterinsurgency.” 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

Kelly, Michael. 1993. “Hillary Clinton Visits Capitol In Vivid Display of Her Clout.” New York Times, February 5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2003; Helffrich and Kaneshima 2010).

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

Two authors: (Helffrich and Kaneshima 2010)
Three authors: (Locher, Bass, and Rees 2003)
4 or more authors: (Zheng et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy
Abbreviation	Phys. Educ. Sport Pedagogy
ISSN (print)	1740-8989
ISSN (online)	1742-5786
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Education Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation