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

Reimer PJ (2012) Atmospheric science. Refining the radiocarbon time scale. Science 338:337–338

A journal article with 2 authors

Arnold K, Zuberbühler K (2006) Language evolution: semantic combinations in primate calls. Nature 441:303

A journal article with 3 authors

Komarova NL, Levy DN, Wodarz D (2013) Synaptic transmission and the susceptibility of HIV infection to anti-viral drugs. Sci Rep 3:2103

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Murakami M, Hirose K, Kawamura K, et al (2004) Post-perovskite phase transition in MgSiO3. Science 304:855–858

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harper C (2005) Analytic Methods in Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Masys AJ (2016) Exploring the Security Landscape: Non-Traditional Security Challenges, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Podinovski VV (2015) DEA Models with Production Trade-offs and Weight Restrictions. In: Zhu J (ed) Data Envelopment Analysis: A Handbook of Models and Methods. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 105–144

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 E (2014) New Solar Farm Produces Enough Electricity for 140,000 Homes. In: IFLScience. 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 (1997) Telecommunications Management: More Effort Needed by Interior and the Forest Service to Achieve Savings. 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

Zhang Y (2017) A Grant Proposal for Mindfulness-Based Self-Care Training for Child Welfare Workers. 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

Detrick B (2017) The Flower Shop. New York Times D6

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

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