How to format your references using the Sport Sciences for Health citation style

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

Levinson P (2000) The enduring test. Nature 404:937

A journal article with 2 authors

Hanahan D, Weinberg RA (2008) Retrospective: Judah Folkman (1933-2008). Science 319:1055

A journal article with 3 authors

Moreira JA, Pacheco JM, Santos FC (2013) Evolution of collective action in adaptive social structures. Sci Rep 3:1521

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Perez GI, Trbovich AM, Gosden RG, Tilly JL (2000) Mitochondria and the death of oocytes. Nature 403:500–501

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Linacre AMT, Tobe SS (2013) Wildlife DNA Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Hameurlain A, Liddle SW, Schewe K-D, Zhou X (2011) Database and Expert Systems Applications: 22nd International Conference, DEXA 2011, Toulouse, France, August 29 - September 2, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Huppertz T (2013) Chemistry of the Caseins. In: McSweeney PLH, Fox PF (eds) Advanced Dairy Chemistry: Volume 1A: Proteins: Basic Aspects, 4th Edition. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 135–160

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 Sciences for Health.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) Women Aren’t Failing At Science — Science Is Failing Women. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/women-arent-failing-at-science-science-is-failing-women/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2007) Hospital Quality Data: HHS Should Specify Steps and Time Frame for Using Information Technology to Collect and Submit Data. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sewell A (2013) A typology of sampling in hip-hop. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Crow K (2001) Skip the Climbing Wall: This Start-Up Just Wants to Hang On. New York Times H4

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	Sport Sciences for Health
Abbreviation	Sport Sci. Health
ISSN (print)	1824-7490
ISSN (online)	1825-1234
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine