How to format your references using the Sport, Education and Society citation style

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

Devlin, K. (2002). Portraits of science. Kurt Gödel--separating truth from proof in mathematics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5600), 1899–1900.

A journal article with 2 authors

Di Domizio, J., & Gilliet, M. (2015). SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. Designer cells finely tuned for therapy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6267), 1478–1479.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCord, T. B., Hansen, G. B., & Hibbitts, C. A. (2001). Hydrated salt minerals on Ganymede’s surface: evidence of an ocean below. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5521), 1523–1525.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lucht, W., Prentice, I. C., Myneni, R. B., Sitch, S., Friedlingstein, P., Cramer, W., Bousquet, P., Buermann, W., & Smith, B. (2002). Climatic control of the high-latitude vegetation greening trend and Pinatubo effect. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1687–1689.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geier, R., Angelmaier, V., Graubner, C.-A., & Kohoutek, J. (2017). Integrale Brücken. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Bognár, G., & Tóth, T. (Eds.). (2014). Applied Information Science, Engineering and Technology: Selected Topics from the Field of Production Information Engineering and IT for Manufacturing: Theory and Practice (Vol. 7). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Daly, K. M. (2015). Health as a Social Media. In G. Einav (Ed.), The New World of Transitioned Media: Digital Realignment and Industry Transformation (pp. 35–51). 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 Sport, Education and Society.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, October 21). These Are Some Of Rosetta’s Last Stunning Images Of Comet 67P. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosettas-last-images-of-comet-67p/

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. (2001). Technology Transfer: DOE Has Fewer Partnerships, and They Rely More on Private Funding (GAO-01-568). 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

Cheung, L. C. (2017). Mixture models for left- and interval-censored data and concordance indices for composite survival outcomes [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, June 16). Walmart to Acquire Bonobos for $310 Million. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Devlin, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Devlin, 2002; Di Domizio & Gilliet, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Di Domizio & Gilliet, 2015)
Three authors: (McCord et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Lucht et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sport, Education and Society
Abbreviation	Sport Educ. Soc.
ISSN (print)	1357-3322
ISSN (online)	1470-1243
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Education Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation