How to format your references using the Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology. 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

O’Reilly, T. (2011). Steve Jobs (1955-2011). Nature, 479(7371), 42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roach, M., & Sauermann, H. (2015). ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Founders and joiners. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6240), 1200–1201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doncaster, C. P., Pound, G. E., & Cox, S. J. (2000). The ecological cost of sex. Nature, 404(6775), 281–285.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Takacs, C. M., Baird, J. R., Hughes, E. G., Kent, S. S., Benchabane, H., Paik, R., & Ahmed, Y. (2008). Dual positive and negative regulation of wingless signaling by adenomatous polyposis coli. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5861), 333–336.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sturges, R. H., Jr. (2014). Practical Field Robotics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Murschetz, P. (Ed.). (2013). State Aid for Newspapers: Theories, Cases, Actions. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chemat, S., Tomao, V., & Chemat, F. (2012). Limonene as Green Solvent for Extraction of Natural Products. In A. Mohammad (Ed.), Green Solvents I: Properties and Applications in Chemistry (pp. 175–186). Springer Netherlands.

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, Exercise, and Performance Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 27). How We Showed ‘Sleeping On It’ Really Is The Best Way To Solve A Problem. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-we-showed-sleeping-it-really-best-way-solve-problem/

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. (2003). Airline Labor Relations: Information on Trends and Impact of Labor Actions (GAO-03-652). 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

Lyzlov, A. (2017). In Vivo Efficacy of Lanthanum Carbonate on Intestinal Phosphorus Absorption in Stage Five Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Undergoing Peritoneal Dialysis [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Wilson, M. (2017, June 20). When the Job Is a Never-Ending Signal Malfunction. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (O’Reilly, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (O’Reilly, 2011; Roach & Sauermann, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Roach & Sauermann, 2015)
Three authors: (Doncaster et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Takacs et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology
Abbreviation	Sport Exerc. Perform. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	2157-3905
ISSN (online)	2157-3913
Scope	Applied Psychology Social Psychology Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation