How to format your references using the Sport Management Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sport Management Review. 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

Rakic, P. (2006). Neuroscience. No more cortical neurons for you. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5789), 928–929.

A journal article with 2 authors

Soo, V. W. C., & Wood, T. K. (2013). Antitoxin MqsA represses curli formation through the master biofilm regulator CsgD. Scientific Reports, 3, 3186.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kennedy, M., Mrofka, D., & von der Borch, C. (2008). Snowball Earth termination by destabilization of equatorial permafrost methane clathrate. Nature, 453(7195), 642–645.

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

Saksena, F. B. (2015). Patient Studies in Valvular, Congenital, and Rarer Forms of Cardiovascular Disease. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gary, D. E., & Keller, C. U. (Eds.). (2005). Solar and Space Weather Radiophysics: Current Status and Future Developments (Vol. 314). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Kozlova, M., Nejdl, J., Albrecht, M., Sebban, S., Gautier, J., Ta Phuoc, K., Klisnick, A., Le Marec, A., & Tissandier, F. (2016). Overview of Development of Laser Driven Secondary Sources at PALS and ELI. In J. Rocca, C. Menoni, & M. Marconi (Eds.), X-Ray Lasers 2014: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (pp. 35–43). 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 Management Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 7). Hubble Captures Breathtaking New View Of Iconic Pillars Of Creation. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-captures-breathtaking-new-view-iconic-pillars-creation/

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. (1973). Procedures To Recover Defaulted Loans Under the Guaranteed Student Loan Program (B-117604(7)). 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

Eggleston, B. P. (2014). An Investigation of the Difference in Student Achievement during the Middle School Transition Years [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Picker, L. (2017, January 4). Low-Profile Deal Maker Is Choice to Head S.E.C. New York Times, A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rakic, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Rakic, 2006; Soo & Wood, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Soo & Wood, 2013)
Three authors: (Kennedy et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Takacs et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sport Management Review
Abbreviation	Sport Manage. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1441-3523
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Strategy and Management Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management Management Science and Operations Research

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