How to format your references using the Science et Sports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Science et Sports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

Primavera JH. Global voices of science: Mangroves, fishponds, and the quest for sustainability. Science 2005;310:57–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Doyle J, Csete M. Rules of engagement. Nature 2007;446:860.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tahir M, MacKinnon A, Schwingenschlögl U. Novel spectral features of nanoelectromechanical systems. Sci Rep 2014;4:4035.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hapfelmeier S, Lawson MAE, Slack E, Kirundi JK, Stoel M, Heikenwalder M, et al. Reversible microbial colonization of germ-free mice reveals the dynamics of IgA immune responses. Science 2010;328:1705–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Weston P. Bioinformatics Software Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Jayyusi L, Roald AS, editors. Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World: A Decade of Change. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jauch EC, Holmstedt C. Intravenous Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke: Results of Large, Randomized Clinical Trials. In: Lyden PD, editor. Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Stroke, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 95–111.

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 Science et Sports.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Watch How This Year’s Early Spring Swept Through The US. IFLScience 2017.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Legislation Amending the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nguyen HM. Valuation effects and external adjustment. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.

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

[1]

Williams J. Robert Caro Nears End Of Research on L.B.J. New York Times 2017:C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Science et Sports
Abbreviation	Sci. Sports
ISSN (print)	0765-1597
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine