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

Labeyrie, L. 2000. “PALEOCLIMATE: Glacial Climate Instability.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 290 (5498): 1905–1907.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elbaz, David, and Catherine J. Cesarsky. 2003. “A Fossil Record of Galaxy Encounters.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5617): 270–274.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz, W., W. Sanderson, and S. Scherbov. 2001. “The End of World Population Growth.” Nature 412 (6846): 543–545.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cash, Heather L., Cecilia V. Whitham, Cassie L. Behrendt, and Lora V. Hooper. 2006. “Symbiotic Bacteria Direct Expression of an Intestinal Bactericidal Lectin.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313 (5790): 1126–1130.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duchon, Claude, and Robert Hale. 2012. Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nater, Roland. 2009. Dictionary of Weighing Terms: A Guide to the Terminology of Weighing. Edited by Arthur Reichmuth, Roman Schwartz, Michael Borys, and Panagiotis Zervos. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Boudjehem, Djalil, and Badreddine Boudjehem. 2012. “A Fractional Model Predictive Control for Fractional Order Systems.” In Fractional Dynamics and Control, edited by Dumitru Baleanu, José António Tenreiro Machado, and Albert C. J. Luo, 59–71. 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

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “‘Cyclops’ Dung Beetles Created By Switching Off Gene That Manufactures Their Horn.” 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. 2013. Information Security: Federal Communications Commission Needs to Strengthen Controls over Enhanced Secured Network Project. GAO-13-155. 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

Beasley, Christopher A. 2010. “Investigations of Redox-Labeled Silica and Gold Nanoparticles in Solution and as Films on Electrodes.” Doctoral dissertation, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Brantley, Ben. 2017. “The Caged Beast Awakens.” New York Times, April 1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Labeyrie 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Labeyrie 2000; Elbaz and Cesarsky 2003).

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

Two authors: (Elbaz and Cesarsky 2003)
Three authors: (Lutz, Sanderson, and Scherbov 2001)
4 or more authors: (Cash et al. 2006)

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