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

Rousselle, Tristan. 2004. “Recruiters and Industry. Dual Competencies.” Nature 430 (6998): 488.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zinkernagel, R. M., and H. Hengartner. 2001. “Regulation of the Immune Response by Antigen.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 (5528): 251–253.

A journal article with 3 authors

Naylor, R. L., S. L. Williams, and D. R. Strong. 2001. “Ecology. Aquaculture--a Gateway for Exotic Species.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 294 (5547): 1655–1656.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Johansson, Leif I., Rickard Armiento, Jose Avila, Chao Xia, Stephan Lorcy, Igor A. Abrikosov, Maria C. Asensio, and Chariya Virojanadara. 2014. “Multiple π-Bands and Bernal Stacking of Multilayer Graphene on C-Face SiC, Revealed by Nano-Angle Resolved Photoemission.” Scientific Reports 4 (February): 4157.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johansen, Geir Anton, and Peter Jackson. 2005. Radioisotope Gauges for Industrial Process Measurements. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Okay, Oguz, ed. 2014. Polymeric Cryogels: Macroporous Gels with Remarkable Properties. Vol. 263. Advances in Polymer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Prieto, Víctor M., Manuel Álvarez, Rafael López-García, and Fidel Cacheda. 2012. “Analysis and Detection of Web Spam by Means of Web Content.” In Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval: 5th Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2012, Vienna, Austria, July 2-3, 2012 Proceedings, edited by Michail Salampasis and Birger Larsen, 43–57. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2016. “‘Rivers In The Sky’ Could Cause Some Species To Go Extinct.” 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. 2005. NASA’s Space Vision: Business Case for Prometheus 1 Needed to Ensure Requirements Match Available Resources. GAO-05-242. 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

Lara, Cecy. 2015. “Bullying Victimization among Adolescent Students: A Qualitative Study.” 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

Poniewozik, James. 2017. “Nostalgia Goes Niche.” New York Times, August 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rousselle 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Rousselle 2004; Zinkernagel and Hengartner 2001).

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

Two authors: (Zinkernagel and Hengartner 2001)
Three authors: (Naylor, Williams, and Strong 2001)
4 or more authors: (Johansson et al. 2014)

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