How to format your references using the Sports citation style

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

Levermann, A. Climate Economics: Make Supply Chains Climate-Smart. Nature 2014, 506, 27–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moir, S.; Fauci, A.S. Immunology. Salmonella Susceptibility. Science 2010, 328, 439–440.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gonzalez, S.; Kitchener, A.C.; Lister, A.M. Survival of the Irish Elk into the Holocene. Nature 2000, 405, 753–754.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, H.; Chandrasekar, S.; Sheetz, M.P.; Stossel, T.P.; Nakamura, F.; Yan, J. Mechanical Perturbation of Filamin A Immunoglobulin Repeats 20-21 Reveals Potential Non-Equilibrium Mechanochemical Partner Binding Function. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1642.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman, N.P. Process Engineering for a Small Planet; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010; ISBN 9780470637050.

An edited book

Integrating History and Philosophy of Science: Problems and Prospects; Mauskopf, S., Schmaltz, T., Eds.; Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2012; Vol. 263; ISBN 9789400717442.

A chapter in an edited book

Brantom, J. Hadrian’s Wall Tourism Partnership. In Managing, Using, and Interpreting Hadrian’s Wall as World Heritage; Stone, P.G., Brough, D., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Archaeology; Springer: New York, NY, 2014; pp. 33–45 ISBN 9781461493501.

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 Sports.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. You Can Now Vote On What NASA Takes Images Of Next On Jupiter (accessed on 30 October 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 FAA’s Preboard Passenger Screening Process; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1987;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dimick, K.E. Response to Intervention Research to Practice: Exploring a School in Transition—a Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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

St. John Kelly, E. The Hatman Closeth. New York Times 1994, 1310.

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	Sports
Abbreviation	Sports
ISSN (online)	2075-4663
Scope